Surely her hair beneath her wimple is as yellow as the marguerite’s petals. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’s standing beneath the old, dying palm tree on our front lawn. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

His skin cracked and split open, but there was only more fire beneath, his coattails rippling behind him like a pair of wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As she settled Inej’s arms beneath the blanket, Nina saw the scarred flesh on the inside of her forearm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then I was beneath the bridge and it was as though they had been waiting for me and no one but me—dedicated and set aside for me—for an eternity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After weeks of sleeping on the ground, the feather bed beneath her back was like clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The road beneath the Wall was as dark and cold as the belly j of an ice dragon and as twisty as a serpent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A swath of red flushes Ethan’s face beneath his eyes and his hands tighten on the steering wheel. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tall and white and fair she walked beneath the trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Poseidon had a splendid palace beneath the sea, but he was oftener to be found in Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She trotted across the lawn to the low hedge beneath the attic window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He could feel the silken texture of her thin dress, and beneath that, the thick chain of the topaz about her waist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to drag him under. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Buried beneath winter’s white blanket, tiny snowdrops unfold their hardy green leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was dirt beneath his cracked yellow fingernails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bright old eyes scrutinized Bod from beneath her bonnet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Each time, the sheet was lifted only high enough to expose the area we were washing, making it feel as though there wasn’t a whole person beneath the linen, just a puzzle of disembodied parts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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That photo of G’pop beneath the old hotel marquee in Meridian? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The lilac shampoo and the almond in her skin lotion and beneath all of that the faint sweetness of the skin itself. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her body was warm beneath his hand, and her fingers were soft around his. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The little teacup elephant peeks out from beneath the thick tablecloth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The rails below the platform shine dully as they bounce beneath the weight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I know my way around a coop,” I said, although I didn’t really want to stick my hands beneath any feathered chicken butts. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He could not behold the fiery heart without thinking of the shadow Melisandre had birthed in the gloom beneath Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jinny felt herself cutting across the beach alone, carrying her limp bundle beneath the smudgy sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the sidewalk, beneath a streetlamp, is a dark green metal bench. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My notebook is stashed beneath my socks in a drawer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against his protests, I tuck Riot beneath my arm and stand to go upstairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her fingers danced over valleys, rivers, the peaks of mountains, the contours of a new nation hidden beneath the old. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Thor reached the top of a hill and looked at the world beneath him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The figure bolted from beneath her fingers and skittered out on the boardwalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They walked to the alcove in the front hall where the shrine was set up beneath the steps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Not much left," sighed the youngest of the Lilim, who had been old when the wood they lived in was still beneath the sea. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shape of a carpet beneath the silty ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The floor beneath me is smooth and cold. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My father’s bed was directly beneath a ceiling fan, which was circulating cold air from a stand-alone air-conditioning unit on a side window. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Running the blade of her finger beneath her eyes to remove the last of her tears, she sniffed a few times and raised her chin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The barge would leave the dock beneath the mountain in little over an hour. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She shifted on her mattress, and the pallet beneath her creaked. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She shivered, though jumping was hardly any more dangerous than standing here beneath the looming towers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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Her eyes followed a roach that darted beneath the refrigerator. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The plane takes off and I watch London disappear beneath a bank of clouds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How many dead lives and fading memories were buried in and beneath the names of the places in this country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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I was dragging my feet, trying to stay in those too-large shoes as the ground beneath me swayed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven servants of the Many-Faced God gathered that night beneath the temple, more than she had ever seen together at one time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bracelets of ivory and gold glimmered around her wrists, and her feet were sandaled beneath matching anklets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He made an awe-inspiring loop and cruised upside down beneath her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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Veturius crests the cliff and ducks beneath the clothes fluttering on the line, heading down the slaves’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The log checked the speed, the lookout warned of dangers they could see, and the lead warned of dangers beneath the surface of the water—sudden shoals and reefs where they might go aground. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Then you slice down toward at a spot just beneath the skull. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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Max moves the floorboards to one side, slides on his stomach beneath the bed and into the hole, Siunek going after, though it takes him longer. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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Blood dripped down his arm where Shaggydog had shredded the wool of his sleeve and the flesh beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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Seconds later, festival-goers stream past, many falling out of sight, cut down as they run, like stalks of wheat beneath a sickle. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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The remnants of the Stark lines shattered like glass beneath the hammer of their charge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The helm beneath his arm was the head of the merling king, with a crown of mother-of-pearl and a jutting beard of jet and jade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The crown of golden roses girded his temples, jade stag's head rising over his forehead, long black hair spilling out beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I lay the knife in the bowl and slid a rag beneath his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then, with Hester secure in his breast, he threw the rest of the rope over and clambered down till he felt solid ground beneath his feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to tradition—and it does not much matter whether it really happened—he descended beneath the Red Sea in the world’s first diving bell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a writhing mass of pure muscle, so big its tail stuck out from beneath me, pound­ing hard against the raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling them beneath her, she settled back to mother them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In 1980, according to the article, sixteen Danish seamen issued a Mayday call, donned life jackets, and jumped into the North Sea as their vessel sank beneath them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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She lifted the bundle and put it beneath the wagon seat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Saturn Rings Roundabout Motel was located beneath an overpass on Route 22. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was little choice, as Her Highness Rachel is above manual labor, and Ruth May beneath it so to speak, so Leah and I were considered by our mother, by default, disposed for her errands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, “cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her shoes as the boy waited beneath the crossbar, rocking back and forth and growing more anxious by the moment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

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Harry, completely hidden beneath the Invisibility Cloak, emerged into the sunlight outside Honeydukes and prodded Ron in the back. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He has also escaped his shackles beneath the earth and has returned to rip the throats of the warriors on the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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His hands were ship-calloused but warm against her breasts beneath her shirt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sansa Stark rode a chesnut mare at his side, looking neither right nor left, her thick auburn hair flowing to her shoulders beneath a net of moonstones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had imagined her completely out of sight, near the bow beneath the tarpaulin, as far from the hyena as she could get. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His officers would be too slow and dull to notice it—a tiny scrap of parchment showing from beneath the pillow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Helping them put up my shelter, I anchored it to some discarded oxygen canisters wedged beneath the largest rocks I could lift, then dove inside to wait for my teammates and warm my icy hands. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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A wood fire burned beneath a concave clay griddle called a comal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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Bloom stood quietly in the warm summer sunshine, absorbed by the two trucks parked beneath the water tank. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not stop to look, however, only hurried beneath them even faster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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For an instant he wanted to gallop after him and shout a warning, but when Robb vanished beneath the portcullis, the moment was gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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The first was short and very fat, with a round red face and three chins wobbling beneath a sable hood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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I gingerly test my hoverboard, then realize that a button exists on the board beneath each of my heels. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walk out around back, a wall of heat and cicada noise hitting me, and sit down beside him, grass crunchy and wet beneath my hands and soaking right into my jeans. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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Two Step ran up to them as they passed beneath Mr. Calloway’s boots. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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Dany put her heels into her horse and showed them the way, trotting beneath the shattered arch of an ancient gate and down a silent street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His remaining eye moves back and forth beneath his eyelid—he’s alive, for now. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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For all their knowledge of astronomy and architecture and mathematics, the Scholars crumbled beneath the Empire's invasion. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In a bloodless coup he had thrust beneath her visor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm startled at the sloppiness of her hair and the pink shadows beneath her eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The spirits’ hymn grew louder and louder, erupted from inside her, but somewhere beneath it all she heard a voice singing softly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This is because, in order to save his life, he is forced to look beneath appearances, to take nothing for granted, to hear the meaning behind the words. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We stand in the arch of a small powder room beneath the riser. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany gave him charge of a dozen of her strongest men, and set them to pulling up the plaza to get to the earth beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The smear of rouge that was still on each cheekbone stood out sharply, almost as though unconnected with the skin beneath. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And beneath those...a very long fall through a lot of empty sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a tiny thing, wrinkled and hairless, shrunken beneath the weight of a hundred years so his maester's collar with its links of many metals hung loose about his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the earthquake stopped at the ground beneath my feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come the morrow we will feast beneath the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could feel the steady beating of her heart, the rhythmic pulsing of her blood through her veins, and beneath her the dense, solid earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beneath the big juniper that I caught sight of the two figures. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet feel itchy beneath the table, and he wonders how soon he will be able to escape. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for the ship’s master to appear, sweltering in the heat as the stench wafted up from the deck beneath them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She tensed the muscles in her neck until every tendon rose to the surface beneath her skin, like strings under a drooping tent. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Denna removed her shoes and danced lightly through the shadows, delighting in the feel of the grass beneath her feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stanley watched the cloud of dust move across the lake to the cabin beneath the trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Firewood said, stomping his tiny front legs on the wood beneath him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fear of the sea that was always there, simmering beneath the surface of their island lives, would boil up in their hearts again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mama was beautiful, with her fair skin and hair like silk that reached down beneath her waist. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The carriage clattered along cobblestoned streets, beneath lampposts, and past statues of dragons along the edge of the river. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Frantically he fell to his hands and knees and felt around beneath the table in the darkness, sweeping back and forth. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patty, the friendly nurse with the diamond engagement ring and a fringe of reddish hair beneath her cap, tells Ashima to consume only the Jell-O and the apple juice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think if I stood on one of those chairs,” he continued, “it’d break beneath me. And I wouldn't want to make a mess on my first day.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pale mists shimmered in the great vale below: a wide gulf of silver fume, beneath which rolled the cool night-waters of the Anduin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They stood at a bend in the paved road that wound around Prospect Park, directly beneath a lamppost. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their massed branches created deep shadows, among which streaks of harsh sunlight confused the image of what lay beneath. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on a bench in the arcade beneath the windows and further pondered Elnora’s words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This made my legs go weak beneath me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night we stop while the carter lights the lantern slung beneath the cart, then we move on in the darkness and the small yellow light-disc travels with us like a comforting beacon. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because here in this jungle, there ain’t nothing but weeds and tears and dreams trapped beneath the asphalt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not noticed the hurt that was not linked to the color of his skin, or the blood that beat beneath it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My high emotions are squished beneath the embarrassment of not having a gift for her. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The light glinted off his spectacles; beneath the dark, glossy hair his face was deadly pale. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He rubs my palm with his thumb like he did two summers ago beneath the stars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Tyrion danced back in while the brigand's leg was still pinned beneath his fallen mount, and buried the axe in the man's neck, just above the shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she was ten a neighborhood boy taught her how to swim and offered her the use of his glass-bottomed box so that she could look beneath the surface of the waves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But at that same moment there was a flash, as if lightning had sprung from the earth beneath the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a swarm of bluebottles rose into the air with an angry whining buzz, revealing the rotting corpse beneath. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her foot pressed against the brake, she wipes a finger beneath her eye. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sirius’s letters, which were now hidden beneath the highly useful loose floorboard under Harry’s bed, sounded cheerful, and in both of them he had reminded Harry to call on him if ever Harry needed to. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The face gazed up at him, heavy, calm, protecting, but what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They felt that he was too far beneath them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butterfly-collar shirt only halfway buttoned, and peeking out from beneath it was a small drawstring pouch hanging from a cord around his neck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s passive mask is gone, revealing the malicious face beneath it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Before he could respond, there was a loud moan and the leaf beneath him gave way. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea how much hatred boils beneath us,” the spider said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sherm became aware of the sound of the radio in the kitchen and the smell of his grandmother’s coffee, and beneath that, he felt his grandmother’s satisfied presence, which never changed. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how Darin can remain unruffled beneath that gaze. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not that she can move, for her legs seem suddenly to have been hammered into the ground beneath her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But Joseph Hooper looked for subtleties beneath the surface of things, anxious, because he had been warned of how much the boy would suffer. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was strong; I didn’t know how strong until I felt it myself, the muscles in his back tightening beneath my fingers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually they inched their way along until they arrived beneath the loft door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t just swim out,” I said softly, pulling on a pair of jean shorts beneath my towel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the back, beneath the farthest eave, Joseph found three cartons marked simply with the letter B. They were filled with men’s clothing, some covered in dirt and mud, all carefully folded. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I donned my best gown and a high-necked bodice, not daring to appear immodest I dressed my hair, tucking it beneath a silk coif embroidered with flowers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All the breath seemed to have been knocked out of him; his head was swimming so badly he felt as though the ground beneath him were swaying like the deck of a ship. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shove Alan against the scorched wall beneath an overhang of bricks and crumbling mortar. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bar creaks beneath me and comes loose, clattering against half a dozen bars on the way down and bouncing on the pavement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The two boats churned toward the railroad bridge with Washington in the lead, but by the time they passed beneath the steel expanse, California had closed the gap to a matter of inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mom stands onstage with a clipboard tucked beneath her arm. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We took a stair to the third floor, entering a large room beneath a high Gothic ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther away there was a cabin beneath two tall trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Forty feet above, the stone men moaned and muttered beneath a flickering lamp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cornflower and Silent Sam watched them stealing off at lunchtime to continue their conspiracy beneath the trees in the orchard where they would not be disturbed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Drunk, smiling, she crawled beneath the furs and took him in her mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Stella stops short, her foot reaching slowly out to touch the ice, and she gradually puts more and more weight on it, testing it out beneath her shoe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I opened the box and found a brand new Shahnamah, a hardback with glossy colored illustrations beneath the passages. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting the curtain by his bed, he saw his father shooting baskets beneath the night light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, “Tell me about yourself. Look beneath my chatty exterior.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She fished a small record from a pouch beneath the box’s lid. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was no world anymore, no riverbank or water, nothing beneath their feet—and anyway, no feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He arranged the food, leaving half-eaten bits on the plates, poured wine to different levels in all the glasses, and finally, with great precision, returned the napkin to the floor beneath the chair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat there for a long time, silent, beneath the ever-changing clouds, surrounded by a dancing breeze. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the sugar colonies, the wounds of slavery were never far beneath the surface. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

At last she came to the Sun and he told her all the story: Persephone was down in the world beneath the earth, among the shadowy dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers lay beneath the breeze, speaking to her in forgotten languages. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dropping the iron I fished the anonymous note from beneath the pile and held it by a corner, so that the slanting sun shone through the page and outlined the scrawling letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale men in dusty linen skirts stood beneath arched doorways to watch them pass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath her bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was reminded of the image of Santiago Matamoros, mounted on his white horse, with the infidels beneath his hooves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She burrows underneath my arm, lays her head on my chest with her nose tucked right beneath my chin, and drapes an arm over my waist and a thigh over my thigh. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They drove quickly, and once again she could see nothing more than a black square outside the window, but this time she could feel the road beneath them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They peered out from balconies, or from beneath archways between houses, or from meticulously landscaped parks that opened onto the white stone boulevard. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As they flew beneath the bright, moonlit clouds, hoping their engine would hold out long enough to get them home, they were joined by two other Po-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ishmael moved his hands beneath the hem of her dress, then slowly up her thighs and over her underpants to the curves of her waist, where they stayed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the host left Morgul Vale and took the northward road beneath the shadow of the mountains no messenger had returned nor any rumour of what was passing in the brooding East. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He kept pausing, as though he lacked the strength to uncover the meaning beneath the text. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over roots and rocks the direwolf sped, through a drift of old snow, the crust crackling beneath his weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The captain of the Crux stood, and the deck seemed to bend beneath his weight as he crossed to the rail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She found the clothing she'd gathered and slipped into the cloak, concealing Needle beneath its folds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The lip of the grave crumbled beneath her foot as she climbed, sending clods of dirt tumbling into the pit. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His furniture was mismatched and thrift-store shabby, yet on the floor beneath them were museum-quality tapestries that could have been priceless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His head cracked open above the left ear and then he slid heavily beneath the waves, water seeping into his wristwatch, stopping it at 1:47. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one had been able to name it satisfactorily, for although it was green, shades of blue and gray and violet whispered beneath it, as in the sea on a cloudy day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Now it is buried beneath cans, a garden rake, and more. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the sea churning beneath me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The ground is covered with leaves and branches, so I cannot see what’s slithering beneath them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the impression of swimming up into this room from some quite different world, a sort of underwater world far beneath it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She aimed a finger at his torn sleeve, the slender scab beneath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She sings as she puts away the dishes, stacks the pots and pans beneath the sink, polishes the furniture. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could only stand there beneath the great grey walls and the hard white sky, sword in hand, waiting, waiting . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The blade sliding through his unbuttoned black coat easily, hitting his heart as though it had always been its intended target, the silver handle jutting out just beneath his crimson scarf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They parked in the shadows beneath a live oak directly in front of B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to imply I felt as if I stood on brittle ice about to give way beneath me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And beneath the official questions, an unofficial one: Who the hell cared about another dead Afghan kid? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her masterpiece soon lay unseen beneath several new coats of ordinary house paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he slipped his hands beneath the big tin bun, he heard through the light mist the grinding of an approaching streetcar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Sanders stands in front of me, like he knew I was standing beneath that magnolia tree across the road and was waiting for me to knock on his door. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The ground is soft beneath my feet but it doesn’t feel like dirt. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He rinsed them in the floodwater and noticed that the canoe wasn’t floating anymore, but resting on the grass beneath. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A line of Lannister house guards stood beneath the western windows, a line of gold- cloaked City Watchmen beneath the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the thirteenth floor we found Annie Smith, who lives in the apartment directly beneath the one Eric Morse was thrown from. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju said, laughing, and then lay on her back, legs spread and held high, an old gossip magazine beneath her, while Ifemelu worked with a shaving stick. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The top of a flask peeks out from beneath Uriah’s pillow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The ants occupy minute tunnels just beneath the bark. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From beneath the lining of the case, he withdraws a small bag made of heavy linen and cinched with a drawstring. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dozer shot out his front paws and dug into the ground beneath the foamy water. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We were all too stunned to speak—until a small bird came hopping out from beneath the folds of the cloak. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And the women were so real that he could nearly touch them; and he heard again their laughter and their sighs, and felt beneath his hands again their thighs and breasts. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Drums beat and fifes blew and beneath everything was the steady clockwork blast of the British cannons firing at the troops stationed north of us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the mouth of the empty tomb that waited for Lord Eddard Stark, beneath his stately granite likeness, the six fugitives huddled round their little cache of bread and water and dried meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His skin flushed beneath his small black mask. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he’d decided he couldn’t win this fight, so he was going to pretend it never happened and Leah was beneath his notice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes briefly, and beneath the scent of growing things was the faintest perfume of jasmine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal grate covered a storm drain that ran beneath the plaza, and the unfortunate girl was staring through it, down into darkness, when Reynie reached her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu was not sure how she helped out, since the events were catered and the children went to bed early, but she sensed, beneath the lightness of Kimberly's invitation, something close to a need. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Helmuth slips the book beneath his shirt, shuts off the light, eases the door closed, returns upstairs to his desk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first, there was only smooth enamel beneath me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The stars slowly slip away from the hole in the roof as the doctor sinks deeper and deeper beneath my body. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sweat rolled down the back of his neck in beads as he marched, focusing on the steady crunch beneath his sandals instead of the eerie black-trunked trees to his immediate right. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He listened to the wind, and felt the stones beneath his feet. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reminded myself forcefully that this had been my situation for the last long while, to be living with a live tiger hot beneath me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be sweating when I skin you alive and squish your eyeballs beneath my feet,” she muttered, picking up the rapier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The clipboard opened, and he rummaged through the compartment beneath until he found a note typewritten in blue ink on pale blue paper. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He did not like sitting beneath her, and he fumed when the slaves offered each dish first to the khal and his bride, and served him from the portions they refused. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We passed an Olds, its roof crumpled beneath an uprooted tree. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Cuban women of a certain age and a certain class consider working outside the home to be beneath them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who taught me how to angle the blade beneath my chin when I shaved. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Nothing, Father. It is as Primus told you. The evening sky hangs above us, the color of a bruise, and clouds carpet the world beneath us, all grey and writhing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt was torn down the middle, as was what lay beneath the shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men’s hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People got meaner, stuck beneath all that hard light and stone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air; and had actually gone beneath it, on Fiver’s assurance that it could do them no harm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sleek, muscular boy, about six feet tall, wearing a varsity jacket and a cap, with a bushy shock of blond curls peeking from beneath it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a slow, wavy line beneath it as I try to figure out how to start this final entry. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Glover said, “He stayed up in the tree a long time. He slept amongst the branches,, not daring to descend. Finally he heard voices down beneath him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deep inside the atom, hidden far beneath the electron cloud, is the nucleus, generally composed of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They slashed with machetes at branches and vines to clear a path toward the river, sinking deeper and deeper into the swampy soil beneath them. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Once the boards are back in place, Mrs. Bessermann slides under that bed, while Siunek crawls beneath the new one I bought off a junk cart five days ago. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The pedestal beneath the Story Box turned into a pillar of light, and symbols blazed to life within it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

While you were logged in, you could walk or run in any direction and the sphere would rotate around and beneath you, preventing you from ever touching the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This layer cake of manure, woodchips, and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Westley busied himself as best he could, cleansing the Snow Sand from ears and nose and mouth and, most delicate of all, from beneath the lids of her eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She took in the heavy, green drapes, the pairs of polished shoes lined up neatly along the wall, the closet door, where the gray paint had chipped and showed the wood beneath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he was languishing in one of the black cells beneath the Red Keep, her letter still unsent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sounded angry, as if it were beneath his dignity to carry out such a trivial task. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The underground. I always knew better. The secret beneath us, the entire time. We’ll uncover them all after tonight. Every line, every one.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Since it was beneath his dignity to wait and see that I actually followed his order, I was by not budging free of him a moment later. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia scrambled away into the trees, dirt flying from beneath her hands and feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the rear of the hall, Bronn lounged beneath a pillar. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He sits on the edge of the bed, touching her pale skin, so thin now he can see the veins beneath. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I want my voice to echo and crack the ground beneath my feet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And what if the supplies were at the bow, beneath the tarpaulin? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jack was there, but Apple had hidden it beneath the case. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was said that Rhaegar's little girl had cried as they dragged her from beneath her bed to face the swords. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Its arms reached out for me, smoke flowing from beneath its skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He kneels beneath the cell window, closes his eyes, and prays for the soul of his neighbor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Newt didn’t respond, still staring at the spot where the Grievers seemed to be feeding on Alby beneath them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their nails shone, their skin glowed, and the hair beneath their elaborately crocheted skullcaps looked drawn on with conte crayon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The chest cavity is caved in beneath the black clothes, home to hundreds of the black-green flies feasting on the body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rasalas lifted its hoof and Minya slid out from beneath it, rubbing the place on her chest where it had pinned her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the bright sunlight and tied Gertrude’s purse securely about my waist so that it was hidden beneath my jerkin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Mayhaps Your Magnificence might ask the Yunkai’i to return his body to us, so we may bury him beneath the waves?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A place beneath my ribs hurts when I think about this. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled over and slid my duffel out from beneath the cot. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the tree he knelt on the moss with water dripping beneath his shirt. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turned to find Clydas standing beneath the broken archway, a parchment in his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Elleven, Blackbird Ordinary, Baoli, bars with swimming pools and fountains, beautiful men, lights flashing everywhere overhead, beneath your feet, in the corner of your eye. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Standing beneath his banner which was rammed into the earth, Cluny cracked his tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sefia crouched beneath it, scuffling at the splintered ceiling, and unlocked the door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, he must test the truth of another of his father's saying One man an a wall was worth ten beneath it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Terrified Pippin lay still, though the pain at his wrists and ankles was growing, and the stones beneath him were boring into his back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her knife falls through what sounds like potatoes, the blade striking the wooden cutting board beneath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An American Army captain and an interpreter also sat in the wooden chairs arranged beneath the couple’s sleeping loft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of Fabric from my leg tearing out the hair beneath it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He waited beneath the tree until the noise of the helicopters was completely gone. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Jutta tucks her hands beneath her thighs to hide their shaking. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And there in the trunk in the cabin, beneath the picture of Sairy in New York City, was a photo of Tiller and Sairy on their wedding day. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had to do something, but he remained where he was, his gaze riveted by the Hessian’s height, his bright uniform, the pale face beneath the high, golden cap. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he took them off, you could see that the eye beneath the painted glass was clouded over. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Just stuff my feet under the metal folding chair stamped Precious Blood and pick on a wad of brown gum that’s stuck beneath the seat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked off my shoes and felt the cool floorboards shift and groan beneath my feet as if the room was adjusting to sudden occupation after being long empty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ben sniffs and, beneath his glasses, wipes his eyes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Sticky finally returned, he dumped his wet clothes in the corner, put on his muddy glasses without cleaning them, and then, without once looking at Reynie, he pulled his suitcase from beneath the bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With that, the warriors turned upon each other and fell beneath their own spears while the furrows ran with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupin pulled a few butterbeers from beneath his traveling cloak and they sat down. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I bring my leg up and wedge it beneath my body. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A tooth fell away beneath the pressure of his thumb, and I heard him grumbling as he placed the plate in his mouth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Air rushing beneath the train is sucking his legs under the car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The water flowing beneath was silent, and it steamed, but the vapour that rose from it, curling and twisting about the bridge, was deadly cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not run down your power pack. When you’re on the chariot this time, no waving, no smiling. I just want you to look straight ahead, as if the entire audience is beneath your notice.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I unfolded the legs and helped him line them up beneath the canopy of fig leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Admires how smooth and unruffled they look, but beneath the water, they're paddling furiously. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hagen’s daughter burst naked from beneath the trees with two wolves at her heels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They met in the center of the bridge, the dry moat beneath them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps your elephants would sooner be nightingales. Instead of sweet song, Meereen’s nights would be filled with thunderous trumpetings, and your trees would shatter beneath the weight of great grey birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The loam was soft and spongy beneath their feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My mothers postcards and her hair are still beneath the floorboards in my room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Silas reached down, and enfolded the living child inside his cloak, and Bod felt the ground fall away beneath him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the road and all markings on it had been swallowed up beneath the rising black waters. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lights of Ravenskill glittered beneath them, smoke came from chimneys, and Seven could even see most of the mansions on the Hill from this side of the house. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, swiftly, he whirled and bounded back into the trees, wet leaves rustling beneath his paws, branches whipping at him as he rushed past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The dirty water falls into the river beneath the palace and then flows to the Waterway.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stand gratefully beneath the rigging and line the rails. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nestles her grandson beneath a frayed blanket on her bed and kisses his eyes closed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk among these gravestones, pointing out which ones —particularly gray, particularly oafish—the Lump-lump Family would choose to bury one another beneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you identify the following famous people?” was written beneath the headline. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more tricks she tucks the ball beneath her arm, grabs her bag, and walks offstage. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that’s been there for a month. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Lexie slowed as they approached a traffic light and Pearl noticed dark rings beneath her eyes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His voice had grown so loud that his horse whinnied nervously beneath him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anya opened her mouth to speak, but beneath their feet, the ground rumbled. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Madge made herself scarce, although every now and then her golden eyes would flash from beneath a chair or behind a curtain, as if she were looking for Albert. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d gotten the chance, he’d drawn over them with his own stories, buried them beneath layers of ink so he didn’t have to see them every time he looked in the mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can feel it beneath the tips of my fingers, cradling parts of my naked body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the walls around me and the bed beneath me vanished. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His shoulders hunched and his cheeks sagged like they were too tired to cling to the bone beneath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would she ever feel Black Wind’s deck beneath her feet again? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stood beneath the scorched stones of the Lord Commander’s Tower, cloaked in darkness and in memory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the hidden ice cracked beneath the weight of the wagons, three teamsters and four horses were swallowed up by the freezing water, along with two of the men who tried to rescue them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knew these sharp, gray rocks—knew how they crunched beneath her feet, how they smelled after the rain, how they could so easily cut into her skin when she was thrown down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Biff wet his handkerchief beneath the water tap and patted his drawn, tense face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ground turns into grass beneath my feet, and hands clamp around my arms, over my mouth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was furious; she could see the muscles of his face taut beneath his white skin, and he roared at the fairy woman in their foreign tongue. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pull back farther, and you got a sense of where Clarkston sat in America—tucked in a green corner of the country beneath the gray ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The truck crushes dying grass and snow beneath its tires, and soon the ground turns to the pavement in the Abnegation sector, and I barely feel the passage of time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"Nothing you have not done before. Only land a boat beneath the castle, unseen, in the black of night. Can you do that?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He slowed Sleipnir to a walk as they crossed the bridge, which swung and shook beneath them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They approached the square, where the Confederate soldier gazed with empty eyes beneath his marble hand in wind and weather. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her ribs sat there untouched, grown cold now, a thin film of grease congealing beneath them on the plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The water was a black open space beneath the starry sky. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her legs trembled violently, then gave out beneath her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But it was Pearl who, some time later, wriggled out from beneath him, took him by the hand, and led him to his room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like the floor has opened up beneath him and there’s no bottom to his agony. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I shuffled my feet toward the door as the population of the aircraft methodically decreased; my colleagues, I realized, were all now flying through the air beneath me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She looked exhausted, with purple smudges beneath her eyes and yellow and red stains on the front of her tunic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath the waves, sucked beneath, the feel of her warm grasp. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Excuse me," he said, hoping to pacify whoever was sitting beneath the hazel tree, and praying that it was not more of the little people who had stolen his hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

First he spotted the T-shaped shadow of the osprey crossing the pale green water beneath him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath her feet shifts, suddenly unsteady, but Marco puts a hand on her waist to keep her upright. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The trees stood beneath him, warriors armored in bark and leaf, deployed in their silent ranks awaiting the command to storm the hill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s still hidden in the laundry bag beneath my “anonymously” donated new collection of underclothes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My leaden feet turned at the end of the bridge and I felt the pebbles of the goat path beneath the drift of snow. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To protect him, I must ask you to remove your mask. I must see what lies beneath.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too large to be felled by salt concentrate alone, but as it tipped, a dull roar emerged from the gaping black hole beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As I lift the knocker, I read the Dutch name, Van Sandtford, beneath it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hole beneath the ruins of the Hotel of Bees, Werner sleeps too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That is none of your business. Take me home!” she ordered, copying the authoritarian tone her grandfather employed with everyone he considered beneath his social station. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would whisper over the sea, telling jokes and talking about women and girls as they watched the fish rise and spin beneath them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were some clothes in the crypt beneath the ruined church, but Bod did not want to go down to the crypt, not even in daylight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It caught the raft and pulled the nose around, so that it aimed downstream but along the edge, bouncing against the bank and sliding beneath overhanging willows and brush. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until Chas backed up a step, and then I stood up, hitting my head squarely on the metal frame beneath my new sleeping spot. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its face was completely hidden beneath its hood. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She follows my gaze to the lump of shattered plastic and metal on the floor beneath the window. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her coat buttons are strained and at least two other skirts peek out from beneath the one she’s wearing on top. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When it came time to run, he decided that for warmth he would wear his old clothes beneath his stolen clothes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Looking harder, I’m able to make out a girl tucked into the shadows directly beneath the window. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Standing beneath the prominently displayed no smoking sign, I distributed the cans and cast my cigarettes upon the table, encouraging my students to go at it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her father lifts her into its bed, where a dozen people nestle beneath a waxed canvas tarp. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd beneath the Roberts family was coming ever closer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We are marked as self by the chemicals we leave beneath the soles of our shoes, as unmistakably and individually as by the membrane surface antigens detectable in homografts of our tissues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, when he comes home, dark circles hang beneath his eyes, and he sinks into a velvet chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three gleaming feathers streamed beneath her, elegant ribbons of light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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Oh, well, turns out whenever the elders were summoned beneath Isihlangu, a feast was in order—never mind that it was because we had arrived as thieves in the night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A polished pedestal made of gold-tipped wood rose from beneath the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She buried her nose beneath his Adam’s apple. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cora crawled to it, stooping beneath the rafters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They could make out a small glint of silver beneath the green paint. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is long enough to stretch beneath me and onto a second girder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts and emotions tangle—longing and confusion and uncertainty, but beneath the chaos in my mind, the tender reeds of hope take root and grow inside me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The rising sun lit them from beneath with flames of murky red; but soon it climbed above them into a clear sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They would be as ants beneath his feet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The dog barked, its nose snuffling to get beneath the tarp and up through the cage bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My fingers find the hem of his T-shirt, and slide beneath it, spreading wide over the small of his back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the foamcrested waves they saw not far off a high, round, green hill, and beneath it a town built on a small bay where boats lay at anchor, all in peace. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

So the King of the Mark came back victorious out of the West to Dunharrow beneath the feet of the White Mountains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted to say more, just to lighten up his sleep, but instead he opened his New Testament and arranged it beneath his head as a pillow. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waited a long time while he set the bucket beneath Rosie. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Holes opened in the floor beneath Hazel’s feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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The ground was rocky and uneven,- the flickering light made it seem to shift and move beneath her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As if it were a great wave that swept my legs from beneath me, I sat suddenly on the floor and wept. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A member named Booty, who was one rank beneath J. T., came to Venkatesh with a story. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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Two empty bottles rest beneath the table, green glass catching the candlelight. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kaede sat in a chair and looked down at her hands; she could still feel the small of Taisin’s back beneath them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grandmaster Larry Evans preferred a more neutral explanation: “I think he feels that lending his name to something is beneath his dignity.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She entered a vast circular ballroom packed with people dancing and drinking beneath a glistening pack of wolves hewn from ice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The current still flowed black and strong beneath, but the surface was a roil of blood and flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hugh manned the oars opposite me, and behind him, at the bow, sat Emma, her eyes hidden beneath the brim of a sun hat, head bent toward a map spread across her knees. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in the clothing the Fairy Hunt had given them all: fur-lined boots, warm woolen leggings beneath supple leather leg guards, tunic and fur vest and cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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The floor beneath him gave way, and Nathan fell down into what seemed like quicksand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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Orders whispered sharp and quiet—boats hauled back onto their racks, oars put away, all of it carefully dried off with dust sheets, which we hid beneath the floorboards afterward. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

King Hamlet's body was interred beneath the floor of Elsinore's chapel, near his father's bones and those of his father's father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Molly’s curse soared beneath Bellatrix’s outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pausing beneath the tree in which I hid, I heard Matthew say, “I don’t think we’ll find the boy. He’ll have gone leagues by now.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

All I could think about was reaching the cage before it disappeared beneath the waves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Harry raised his wand and saw the outline of a cluttered dressing table beneath the curtained window. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He did everything slowly and carefully, but beneath his tractorlike slowness and outward gentleness was a crossbreed of quiet Indian and country black man, surefooted, hard, bold, and quick. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sohrab kicked his heels against the fence beneath us and studied the shadows we cast on the ground below. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She wanders through a hard winter, taking shelter beneath trees. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was fourteen and her breasts were beginning to show beneath her bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That is: Padre Sinkovich had wanted a bell so badly for so long that one day he simply began to hear a joyful bronze tolling beneath the dirt floor of his humble mud church. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass is damp beneath my feet, the air cool, heavy with the scent of rain and roses. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave a quick glance at Harry and then looked down, at the tattoo of the black ship beneath her finger. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I look at the mountains and imagine the geological movements of plates beneath Earth’s crust over millenia. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew anger well but not despair, and they didn’t stone sinners for the same reason they didn’t commit suicide—it was beneath them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair stood beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What little of his face could be seen beneath his hood and scarf was as colorless as the surrounding snow, but breath still puffed faintly from his nostrils whenever he exhaled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Through the thunder of the rushing water beneath me, I heard Beau bark. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The aunts toyed with their food, silent and formal with one another beneath the littles’ shouts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I pull the filthy plaster off the end of my finger and look at the pale, wrinkled flesh beneath, dried blood caked at the edge of my fingernail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lush green of the grass was cool, and beneath the grass was the dark earth, patient, waiting... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth fell away from beneath her feet and she tumbled into water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day my mother stored our pots and pans beneath the bed, but at night she stacked them in the corner so Lois and George could sleep there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cold seeped through her clothing, into her skin, until she felt the icy floor of the fortress beneath her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My arms bore the whole weight of me as the metal lurched beneath me and I had to stretch through my toes to balance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was so weak the floorboards seemed to roll beneath him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He smiled at Petra, his eyes almost vanishing beneath the outcroppings of hair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The words beneath the horizontal half-moons had a line running through them that ended in a squiggle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She pressed the tip beneath her breast, between her ribs, an arrow to her heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She would have kissed her good knight on the cheek, but just then Missandei appeared beneath the arched doorway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pond with the gazebos streaked by beneath her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They heard barking, and Joseph saw a dirty white ball of fur with something in its mouth dash out from beneath a table. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I tuck the bag beneath my arm and let them all tumble onto the kitchen counter. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There was a secret compartment beneath Ma’s bunk, where Lyra lay cramped for two hours while the police banged up and down the length of the boat unsuccessfully. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We piled branches beneath the platform and kept it burning. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gazillion gallons of shimmering water flowed beneath them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was dug in against the seawall, and then he found himself there again, and again he was still dug in beneath the seawall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He shot a Stunning Spell at Crabbe, who lurched out of the way, knocking Malfoy’s wand out of his hand; it rolled out of sight beneath a mountain of broken furniture and boxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were purple shadows beneath her eyes, and there was a smudge of dirt on her cheek. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly as he could, he got out of his four-poster and went to pour himself some water from the silver jug beneath the window. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Surrounding it is a patch of blue strands,like someone injected blue dye into the tiny veins just beneath the surface of my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the sound of the door gently hitting the wall behind it, keeping time with the ties clacking beneath us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The chorus grew to a rolling thunder of support, and it felt as if Isihlangu was shaking beneath our feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After considerable wiggling, the board lifts, and I stick my hand in the dark hole beneath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to find his eyes, but they're hidden beneath the hood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I was up in the dark and blundering around, feeling rough walls and the coal giving way beneath each step like treacherous sand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of shivering and worrying about frostbite, I was now sweating heavily beneath a scorching sun. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was on the branch beneath hers, and his hands slid up her stockings slowly, slowly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure stands on her tiptoes and presses her ear to the roofing beneath the slates. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose- filled bag of feathers hung from his ears and rested on his neck beneath his chin. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was cold and dark beneath the ice, in the narrow tunnel that crooked and slithered through the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His legs stuck out from beneath the table, and they looked like they could run down a train on the Long Island Rail Road. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was the stillness of the black water, and the unknown things that lay beneath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Slimy pink earthworms covered the sidewalk and the road, and we tried avoiding them as we walked, but you noticed one get squashed beneath a cyclist’s tire. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she’d slip below the surface, swim nearer, and attack them from beneath. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I think the act is fading, and I don’t know if I like the person I am beneath it all. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the darkness beneath it, something huge stirred, grunted, and then growled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As quickly as it had risen then, the fin dipped back down, sank beneath the gentle waves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she stood beneath a tree, watching the villagers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The light beneath filters through the spaces between the stones. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the door is already swinging shut behind her, and I hear the crash of scim striking scim, followed by the crunch of bone beneath fist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She used her own nail to scrape out the dirt beneath his nails, and smeared it across her palm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thousands could dwell there, workers, servants, slaves, and warriors with great store of arms; wolves were fed and stabled in deep dens beneath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even in summer, they never go to swim or to turn brown beneath the sun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud was soft beneath them, and a little cold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I scan the room, hoping for inspiration, but the only place I can think of that will even conceal him temporarily is beneath my bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The corner of his black notebook peeked out beneath his chemistry book. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The dirt beneath was rich and marbled with the white roots of those plants which grow in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time Amazons swarmed beneath them, demanding their surrender, Hazel made a crate of jewelry explode, burying their enemies in a Niagara Falls of gold and silver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His pug, Beanie, curls up beneath where his feet ought to be. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ophie wasn’t quite sure what that meant, but she figured it had something to do with the nice yards behind each row home, even if the plants were currently buried beneath several inches of snow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Elowen was regarding her coolly, as if she were merely an unpleasant task to take care of, little larger than an insect she could crush beneath her shoe. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then I heard and felt on the floor beneath me a stampede of feet—moving, running, scurrying to escape the building. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My underwear always came on and off beneath the shield of a towel. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It had been a week of stepping and not finding the ground beneath my foot. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stella yanked the boy close, dry leaves crunching beneath his bare feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was so strange, starting senior year like that, feeling as if the ground was opening up beneath me, I was slowly sinking into it, and it might swallow me up for good. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stop well before Tatarska Street and rebraid my hair in the dim, mirrored glass of a shop window beneath a streetlight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even with the heater she shivered beneath her blankets, still fully dressed in her clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, my legs felt like anchors by then, and those ships had come from beneath the sea—there was no telling how many more of them lurked below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oak spots me first and scrambles onto my lap, throwing his arms around my neck and giving me a small bite just beneath my shoulder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"They do not plan to climb the Wall nor to burrow beneath it, my lord. They plan to break it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The trio halted beneath the lofty Abbey walls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Turner crawled away from the ledges and stood up unsteadily, as if the blast had loosened the granite beneath him and it was swaying with the quarrelsome waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All solemnity, therefore, was silent, the peals muffled; and bodies went unheralded to their final rest; and we shoveled dirt atop the dead and watched their wooden vessels sink beneath the earth without a cry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He raised one arm, the long black sleeve of his robe dangling beneath it, and wagged a finger at Magdalys. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Reynie had sat beneath the blue helmet, just in case it might work. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a wide blue tarp hidden beneath an old wooden slat on the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath me is hard and rocky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In surveying, the earth was firm beneath your telescope. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep rumbling sounded from the ship as it slid farther beneath the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Whisperer’s computer circuitry was safely hidden beneath the stone floor, its chair and helmets made of strong metal. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

El Tirindaro slips into the water behind the tube and kicks his legs beneath the surface. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bod could not see her, but there was an extra shadow beneath the hawthorn tree, and, as he approached it, the shadow resolved itself into something pearlescent and translucent in the early-morning light. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I was still in the rear, and when I opened my eyes again I saw one of the mice sliding past me, clawing uselessly with his small nails at the smooth metal beneath him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

English visitors did not find this arrangement peculiar; chimneys were just coming into use in Britain, and most homes there, including those of the wealthy, were still heated by fires beneath central roof holes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her red sari shows beneath her brown Canadian winter coat, her overshoes poking out beneath it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took a few seconds, but Joseph came and sat down, and my father knelt beside him and reached beneath Rosie. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It began to roll from beneath me, but the gentlemen in the group were kind enough to grab it and assist me down. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whir and roar beneath us was the only sound in my ears — riding the bike was the only time I couldn’t hear the constant insects and birds of Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I believe in God with all my might, but have been thinking lately that most of the details seem pretty much beneath His dignity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook out the tom cloak and huddled beneath it on the floor, shivering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I dug my nails into the gaps between the boards, terrified that the floor might give out beneath me at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The broken glass clicked, ground, and splintered beneath his heel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He stopped to rest beneath a low passageway off an ancient cobblestone street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Throughout it all, I cradled the heartbeat beneath me and prayed the pulse wouldn’t beat so hard that it tired and stopped, that I wouldn’t lose Otto, too. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, residue seeped through the floor, infusing the land beneath with the wine’s personality. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even as he looked at the other two beneath the Cloak, the door of the Three Broomsticks burst open and a dozen cloaked and hooded Death Eaters dashed into the street, their wands aloft. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She smelled faintly of flowers, which I guessed was a perfume, but beneath that was her own smell, like green grass, like the open road after a light spring rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rabbits and porcupines shared the shade beneath the trees and the frogs and fish shared the cool brown waters of the forest pond. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His helm they set beside him, and across his lap they laid the cloven horn and the hilts and shards of his sword; beneath his feet they put the swords of his enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of things going on beneath it, and she saw that the witch consul was coming to a decision. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She buttoned the waistcoat snugly over the shirt and sat down to lace on her boots, then pulled her hair back and tucked it beneath the high collar before tying the cravat around her neck. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she placed the sacrificial parts upon a blazing altar, the earth rumbled and quaked beneath their feet and from afar dogs howled through the darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real me, hiding just beneath the gauze? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Trying not to think of the warmth of her skin beneath his hand, he directed her to her bedroom and watched her stagger into bed, where she collapsed on top of the blankets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His hair and skin, and the tar beneath him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My cheek and my eye are just singing with pain and I haven’t even moved properly before Aaron’s grabbing me by my shirtfront and the skin beneath and lifting me to my feet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And finally, on the outside, living in uneasy truce with the more primitive brains beneath, is the cerebral cortex, which evolved millions of years ago in our primate ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash slipped beneath the covers and answered, “I suppose.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were asleep; her mother had been taking sleeping pills at night to calm her nerves, and the crack beneath their bedroom door was dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It looked pale beneath her dark blond hair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I glide beneath the trees, transform into wind. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Someone stood beneath the tree: a huge man wearing a winged helmet. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They were moving again, through the gate and beneath the city’s massive walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At night plumes of vapour steamed from the vents, lit from beneath with red light, or blue, or venomous green. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They would have driven me mad, but Miss Emily always ignored them, like they were beneath her contempt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down and lifted up an edge of it, looking at the polished boards beneath. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A sharp pain lodged beneath Adina’s ribs, making it hard to breathe. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The darkness beneath was that much more profound, and yet it wasn’t threatening, as shadows were in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I flip over onto my stomach and shove my arms beneath my pillow to get more comfortable. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

There was no distinctive point about her on which he could fasten his attention, and his gaze glided from her pale brown hair to the stumpy outline of her feet beneath the cover. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ground rolled beneath us as a shudder of noise rolled over us. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He ate half a can of chili and put the rest in the small ice chest beneath the steps. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one of the maids, a skinny little thing, brought their supper Fenoglio hid the written sheets he had kept beneath the covers of his bed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One by one, the threads of his rope snapped beneath Grave’s dagger, and Nox, sensing the vibrations, looked up at the assassin in horror. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Cabinets opened fine with a little extra tug, and they could lift Grandma’s biggest, heaviest pot from beneath the counter when they worked together. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I staggered and tripped my way over the uneven ground, took out Izio’s shoes from beneath the coat and threw them in two directions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He felt all those nonwinning awards would be “a shrine to mediocrity,” and such a thing was beneath me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man has a silvery beard, a crinkly forehead, and gentle eyes peeking out from beneath brows as straight as my own. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Far beneath him, he heard their voices and laughter sharp as icicles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No one in the hidden, dark area beneath the ship laughed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Moreover, I had trapped myself beneath the table and could neither approach Hamlet nor retreat without being seen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He may have glanced left or right, it was difficult to tell beneath the hood pulled over his eyes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

These steps once rang to the sound of lovers footsteps, and beneath that broken dome marriages beyond count were sealed with a kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what to say or do around the erratic part of him, and it is here, bubbling just beneath the surface of what he does, just like the cruel part of me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pulpo was still singing, but his words were lost beneath the clashing layers of music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It submerged and vanished beneath the opaque green water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I felt the earth beneath my feet and wept for happiness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat was running down his face and stinging his eyes beneath his helm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I lie back and put my legs up on the bed, and she nestles into her spot beneath my arm. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When they flew back beneath the clouds a little while later, they had to squint through the darkness for a landmark they knew. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, he searched through the straw with his hands to see if anything had been concealed beneath, then made a round of the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jigo, the oldest man on the Current, shoved him from behind, growling, “Shut it,” from beneath his bushy whiskers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or would the earth tremble, as many said, and bury me beneath its falling rocks? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brer Fox roared before he disappeared beneath a wriggling pile of iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

An arm slips beneath my left arm—the one I catch with—and hooks my elbow before something heavy lands on my shoulder. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Their coach, an intense and quiet presence who hid beneath the brim of her cap and came out only to give bits of inspiration or wisdom, presented another mystery. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Their helms were tiger’s masks, the faces beneath marked by green stripes tattooed across both cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So instead Otto and I climbed on top of the fallen trunk and sat there, where the sun’s warmth lingered in the wood beneath us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed at the dazzling behemoth and the darkness beneath it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d gone elsewhere and the room I was in was all black, with ice beneath me, my stomach writhing . Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After taking a deep gulp of air, I move another few inches down the path, praying the stone won't crumble beneath my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It rests on a ledge above us, a pillow beneath it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm—swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick— when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, he got up and moved into the trees to try hiding beneath the thick undergrowth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the barbed wire was loose—because Max had made it loose—giving just enough space to crawl beneath. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All this over a simple pomegranate, still lying uneaten in my satchel buried beneath my bed. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Basta only bowed his head and stared at the floor beneath his boots. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rabbit made one last smoking effort and came to a dust-explosive shuddering stop directly beneath the mare.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were brown too, beneath a heavy shelf of brow, her cheeks smooth and flushed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra saw sparks flying up from some of the bears’ armor, and saw them huddle over beneath its protection, before she heard the rattle of the bullets. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old Clock Watcher shook like a freezing chicken beneath his flapping robe. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was low beneath the roar of the flame, but the man in the gray suit seemed to hear him fine. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo struggled beneath her, but it was no use. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When the coal cars were full and stopped beneath the bridge, some of the braver boys would even leap into them, plunging waist-deep into the loose coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my feet down in a puddle of rainwater, then realized my shoes were still sitting on the floor beneath the backseat, where I’d left them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurtled past huge trucks full of NVA soldiers, coming so close that one scraped Yen’s arm where it stuck out beneath the canvas siding. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Wiping beneath her eyes, she leaned in and kissed me again, this time on my scarred cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing written on there is The End with a picture of a black leather book beneath the words. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It shifts and slides beneath me with the sound of broken crockery. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has the dental textbook hidden beneath our pillow. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to jump as far as I can. If the floor gives way beneath me, I’m going to need to grab on to you, and you can’t let go.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bender sits and reaches beneath his seat for a small covered bowl. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Reek listened to the vanes turning on the old windmill as they rode beneath the gatehouse into a grassy courtyard where stableboys ran out to take their horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It went as well as it could: the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then / seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had put on one-piece oilskins they had found beneath the driver's seat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His chain-mail shirt beneath the armor was more of a long, hooded tunic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Matt wanted to stop, but Rosa shoved him on, all the while cursing beneath her breath. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smells of concentrated sweat and body odor, and the stuff that collects beneath your toenails. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Wali and Kamal are here too. They wouldn’t miss your birthday for anything,” he said, laughter lurking just beneath the surface. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re doing very well, Fabiola. Stay focused,” he says with what I think is a smile hidden beneath all that beard. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Several spaces beneath and printed in italics was the follow-up: What was the true name and occupation of the author? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she could still feel Taisin’s mouth against hers, the bones of her spine beneath her fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, when he went to sleep beneath the tree, the surprised child ran back along the path to her mother’s house. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I laid my head on her chest beneath the bunched-up T-shirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

How was it that cloud was beneath her? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Was the water of the Styx flowing beneath his fingers, or maybe the Lethe? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He seemed to hide a message beneath those words, for Madam relaxed some and stood with grace. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did Gotama once sit down beneath the bo tree in his greatest hour when he received enlightenment? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked below but he could not see beneath the ice underneath his feet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And beneath it all, the dream of the empty grave making her stomach turn. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some polities may have disintegrated beneath the climatic assault, but Wari thrived. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt as if the ground had dropped away beneath her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you feel as though you had the ground removed from beneath you as well?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I blinked and tried to prop an elbow beneath me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He turfed out half the contents of his trunk before he found it hiding beneath the rolled-up socks in which he was still keeping his bottle of lucky potion, Felix Felicis. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The solenoid kicked in immediately; the engine stuttered once and then began to idle roughly, rattling frantically beneath the floorboards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a matching suit jacket, and beneath it, a collared shirt starched stiff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The determined, proud expression we all knew so well surfaced from beneath the sorrow. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And beneath his benign reply, I sense a warning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I walked to Alaska’s room that morning, the frosty grass of the dorm circle crunched beneath my shoes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It had been for some time, and now even the thought of those laborious sessions of lying beneath Rasheed made Mariam queasy in the gut. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't expect her to answer, but to my surprise, she unbuttons her uniform jacket and pulls up the shirt beneath to reveal a stretch of pallid skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As her head went beneath the surface she heard Jem intoning, “Jean Louise Finch, I baptize you in the name of—” IVhap! Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow I couldn't get the needed urgency into my words, and beneath it all something about Rinehart bothered me, darted just beneath the surface of my mind; something that had to do with me intimately. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair beneath the visor was a squirrel's nest of dirty straw, and her face . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the office with him Portia sat on a bench against the wall, her hands cupped beneath her chin, her body bent almost double. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had one of my arms trapped beneath his knee, but with the other, I reached out, desperately searching for the dropped revolver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They pass shops stuffed with hanging meats and a drunk with a broken mandolin on his lap and a trio of streetwalkers huddled beneath an awning who catcall the boys in their uniforms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Have you actually talked to them about this? Have they ever said, Art is beneath you, Sara?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Through the windows in those doors I see the Weapons Lab, the even rows of machinery and dark devices and serum vials, lit from beneath like they’re on display. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She sees the freshly dug graves beneath the gallows—the spot where her body will rest. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

First it had been Skullface, killed beneath the wheels of the cart. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The guy stumbled and grabbed the door frame tightly as the floor beneath his feet began to give way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I watched with alarm as my sweater accumulated hundreds of tiny beads of moisture, which gradually began to penetrate the fabric and join the dampness of the shirt beneath. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I burrowed beneath the warm weight of my quilt. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They each hung on their pole beneath the wooden canopy, and seemed to float. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Staring down the hill at the dancing grass beneath them, there was a flickering shimmer in the air. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His soft red face peered out from beneath his hat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I slip back into the hall just as Max emerges from beneath the counter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was another audible emotion beneath the bellow, a terrible anguish. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tentacle tongues shot out from beneath the rock, shivered, went limp. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Begbie’s hands came up beneath my arms and propped me up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The slaves erected Khal Drogo's tent beneath a jagged outcrop of black rock whose shadow gave some relief from the heat of the afternoon sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Landscape,” in this case, is meant exactly—Amazonian Indians literally created the ground beneath their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The water cup. The handle broke and the lip was jagged beneath. We used it to cut through our bonds. Once our hands were free...” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Far beneath them, the trees of the forest sighed, then roared. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As Ser Kevan made his way across the inner ward, the castle seemed an alien place, where every keep and tower had grown icy teeth, and all familiar paths had vanished beneath a white blanket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I peer off the side of the ship, pondering the depths, wondering what unknowable mysteries lie beneath us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Georgia station is closed,” he said finally, scratching his scalp beneath his blue cap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, I waited till Zach inserted himself into our awkward conversation before sneaking inside to thaw my fingers beneath running water. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We followed and found them sheltered beneath a shoe store's overhang two doors down, apparently their customary refuge. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times it would plunge beneath, stirring up the mantle and resulting in long spells of volcanic activity and earthquakes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We occupied the land, the forests, the rivers; we extracted the mineral wealth beneath the soil and all the riches of this beautiful country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

White puffs were released beneath the boys’ feet, until the field was covered by a cloud of dry dust that resembled fog. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The metal was warm beneath her fingers—comforting, somehow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They moved through the grey gloom beneath the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the men in front of me stumbled, and a piece of salt clattered off the wooden boardwalk beneath us and splashed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not far from here. On a hill, beneath a tree, overlooking a pond. Very serene. A good place to think. ” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those February nights with the smallest breath of warmth beneath the cold. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to unbutton his shirt because I want it off, but the bottom half is trapped beneath my thighs, so we pull apart and he puts me down so I can finish. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The skipper pulled his chronometer out from beneath his shirt. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A few sparks jumped out beneath the train as it roared and rumbled overhead, and I made a wish on those lucky train sparks. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She exhaled and sent a ray of power out from her center felt it blitz along beneath her skin and then enter her mom on one side; Robbie on the other. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Like the Tower of Terror at Disneyland, it feels like the ground falls out from beneath me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My black suit pants stood out against the white tarp stretched beneath the coffin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can see her dresses are still hanging in the closet, like little ghosts of her missing her body, and her shoes are still lined up beneath them. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How should Meereen ever come to trust the Brazen Beasts if I do not? There are good brave men beneath those masks. I put my life into their hands.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rivers broke his camp quickly and sad- died up beside her, and they set off again, near fifty strong now, flying beneath the direwolf, the leaping trout, the twin towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There would be lilac, and honeysuckle still, and the white magnolia buds unfolding slow and tight beneath the dining-room window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But his muscles relaxed a trifle beneath my pressure and I breathed, "Seven?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt and grass beneath my feet are moist with dew, and there are even beads of water on the side of the tent. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She saw her parents in the circle of light created by the streetlamp, dead in the grass with the blood pooling black beneath them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He soon found it half-submerged in the shallows beneath the branches, where he figured it must have fallen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mama needed to return to Akira, so Hanako got to work draining the tub water, cleaning the tub, refilling it with the pump, and starting the fire beneath it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except the Bible; I picked it up and sat back on the bed, allowing its blood-red-edged pages to ripple beneath my thumb. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the same one I have danced with ever since I saw blue gel beneath my split flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Still, it galled him to think of what wealth might lie beneath the waves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It worked — the Disarming Spell made the spider drop him, but that meant that Harry fell twelve feet onto his already injured leg, which crumpled beneath him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Joe’s seat slid methodically and silently back and forth on the greased runners beneath him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a small bundle beneath the seat of the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I say that though they may lie beneath the earth, they are not buried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She placed a book on top of it, then another book, and one day it was swallowed beneath files and books. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grow warm again, and somewhere deep beneath the layers of black skin, I can feel them blush pink. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harry could see a strip of gleaming yellow beneath its wrinkled black eyelid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As he pressed it in with his thumb, there was a clicking sound as it slipped beneath the metal tines that cradled it and solidly held it in place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But it did matter, of course, which is why I kept pounding at our cinder-block walls and why the questions had floated beneath the surface for a week. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I dragged myself from beneath his heavy body and tried to stand up. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Warrior had his sword sketched in beneath his face, the Smith his hammer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As it grew warmer, Samar would venture out in her pajamas and robe and sit beneath me on an old blanket, spattered with moonlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The thing to do, I thought with a smile, was to give them hints that whatever you did or said was weighted with broad and mysterious meanings that lay just beneath the surface. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bend down and press my palms to the rail, closing my eyes to focus on the feeling of the metal beneath my hands. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, the broken angel is upright, with a stunning crack zigzagging across her back beneath her wings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I heard the boards creaking beneath her feet as she crossed the room to her door as Dad crept down the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Vikus reached beneath the table and brought out a long object wrapped in very thick silk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to make out what was happening, but the screams of the horses seemed loud even at this remove, and beneath them Catelyn heard the fainter clash of steel on steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mountains broke in half as they passed, and the earth burst into flame beneath them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perplexed, yes; uncertain, yes; but beneath it all something as yet unnamed was coming into focus. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its fetid dark green leaves spread like a canopy over the ground and its fruit, like a small apple newly ripened, lurked beneath. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She rolled six socks into balls and found some old birthday cards tucked beneath them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone slips a parchment marked with the Augurs’ diamond seal beneath my door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘Down, down!’ he gasped, clutching his hand to his breast, so that beneath the cover of his leather shirt he clasped the Ring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent his thoughts into the ground beneath him and hoped the goddess was listening. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She rolls onto my stomach, trapping me beneath her supple warmth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went together like two bottles beneath a waterfall. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It is beneath me to deal with gnats such as yourself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But in the hereness of dusk I am moving toward the doomlike bells through the flowered air, beneath the rising moon. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took him to the nearest town, where his tooth was pulled; but it was too late, and the blood-poisoning carried him off, black-faced and groaning, and they buried him beneath his favorite willow tree. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The snails liked to burrow deep beneath the tangled tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The outburst beneath my window seemed to have exhausted him and left him strangely uncommunicative. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll show this offensive trollop,” Ignatius mumbled, throwing the art theater schedule into the fire beneath the stew. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we desert the coaches of Little League, Ben thought, leaving the river’s edge and returning to the sidewalk beneath the huge water oaks of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Hasina’s suggestion, the two of them had emptied the bottle of aspirin in the gutter, hidden the kitchen knives and the sharp kebab skewers beneath the rug under the couch. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I stayed close as he got his teeth and went over to the tap and held them beneath a stream of water. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaping over bonfires, rubbing ash beneath your eyes, picking on little kids? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the same time there rose to his nostrils again her whisky-laden breath, and beneath this, faint, intimate, the odor of her body. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The shifting torchlight made the steps seem to move beneath his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a gown of yellow silk so sheer and fine that the candles shone right through it to reveal the spun gold and jewels beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lynn wedges herself under one of the metal structures and climbs quickly, keeping the narrow girders beneath her as she works her way to the middle of the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pair stood and chatted beside two armchairs, beneath one of the dark wooden arches that are found throughout the grand building. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Albert didn’t move, so Joseph placed some logs on the andirons and crumpled newspaper beneath them. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We left him beneath his bed, bound tightly to its legs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him all about it how loud it was when the plane lifted into the sky, each of us, leaning toward the window, watching New York grow small and speckled beneath us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie, walking backward, waved at me nervously and then tucked her hands beneath her chin. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was a scraping noise somewhere beneath her feet—close, as if someone were running a fingernail along the ceiling below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His feet began to slip; pebbles and rocks began ringing beneath his feet; he looked up, trembling, in terror of death, and he cried: “Lord, I can’t come no higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Henry stepped forward, took one of his hands and examined it beneath the light. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even with my hair and the hollows beneath my eyes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He had the long sleeves of his white shirt pushed up to his elbows, and his forearm was surprisingly hard and muscular beneath his light skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, Oomen was made like a scarecrow—not scrawny, but as if beneath his clothes, his body had been put together at wrong angles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The front porch was propped on three cinder blocks piled precariously beneath wood flooring that showed signs of rot. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I clutch the edge of the bench beneath me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But the very ground has been taken from beneath me,” Hamlet said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I looked beneath it at my hole card; another ace—a pair, back- to-back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sighting Karen with her two friends to the right and beneath the scoreboard, Ben waved to them and winked as he retrieved a loose ball. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was almost to the top of the chemistry room’s ceiling when she spotted her red backpack in the wreckage beneath her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Liam’s expression was grim as he leaned over and pulled my hair out from where it was trapped beneath the collar. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the far eastern edge of MidMerica, near the EastMerica border, was a home with a river running beneath it, spilling from its foundations into a waterfall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Directly beneath the familiar black dragon painting there was an ornate crystal pedestal on which rested a gold chalice encrusted with tiny jewels. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And we cannot sweat beneath the white man’s burdens for long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Humming a tune beneath his breath, he strode out with a will, almost breaking from the cover of the trees straight out into the flat meadowland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Were it buried beneath the roots of Mindolluin, still it would burn your mind away, as the darkness grows, and the yet worse things follow that soon shall come upon us.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And when they weren’t lobbing shells, the Vietcong were digging tunnels that they could use to put explosives beneath the marines. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I was a guest beneath your roof and ate of your meat and mead,” she said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had known all the angles, but beneath that surface they were poor, ignorant, untrained black men; life had eased up on them and hyped them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. No. No. Around me, my men drop, suffocating as they refuse to kill their friends, or falling beneath the merciless blades of Blue Platoon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tallest passenger leaned over the side of the raft and pointed to the Burning Sea beneath us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I looked closely and saw blond braids blowing beneath a pink hat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But instead I sit, as motionless as the rock beneath me, while the dawn begins to lighten the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled and shook beneath his feet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once they announced that there was a hidden treasure beneath the chimney. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rest was shrouded in shadow ... except beneath the open window, where a spray of ice crystals glittered in the moonlight, swirling in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His men fell in around them, the hooves of their gar- rons breaking through the icy crust to the softer snow beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stepped inside, picking her way along in the gray light, as though the floor might collapse beneath her feet. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He looked at Taisin, pale-faced and stiff in her chair carved out of a tree trunk, and then at Kaede, who had dark shadows beneath her eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our presents appeared beneath the tree, both Charlie’s and mine, with cards from Santa. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In my peripheral vision, I see the blond, freckly-faced girl on third base take a quick peek at her coach, who tugs at his right earlobe, and then brushes a finger beneath his nose. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

We wear ribbons every day except Saturday when we wash them by hand, Dell and I side by side at the kitchen sink, rubbing them with Ivory soap then rinsing them beneath cool water. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The men removed their hats and caps, the woman wearing the apron folded her hands beneath it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stretched out beneath the covers, hearing the springs groan beneath me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved the top sweater away—and there, hidden beneath it, still attached to the cord, was something that almost made Finn’s heart stop. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The huge moon rose and the smaller mold-colored moon and they were joined by a ruby-red moon, and the grey wolf ran at a steady lope beneath them across the desert of bones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair is tucked beneath a colorful satin scarf, and her wide gold hoop earrings almost touch her shoulders. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I stood beneath that tree for the longest time, hoping to catch sight of the bird who was singing such a song. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the first day of Passover, I walked beneath the early spring sycamores on my street, then turned into Lee Avenue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure can hear the aquaria bubble and the woman inhale and the rubber stoppers on the stool legs beneath her squeak as she shifts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, whitish silver, and it was moving ceaselessly; the surface of it became ruffled like water beneath wind, and then, like clouds, separated and swirled smoothly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A thin crust of snow cracked beneath the hooves of their horses, with a sound like breaking bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She starts to get up from beneath the covers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds, he doesn’t, just lies on the ground with an arm bent beneath him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then again beneath the bole of a great tree on the very edge of the wood more prints were discovered. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I crawled under the covers and kicked out of my jeans and socks and then watched the comforter dance as beneath it, Augustus removed first his jeans and then his leg. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The room was plainly furnished with simple wooden furniture; in addition to the small bed there was a wardrobe beside the door, and beneath the casement window was a cushioned bench. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally the boat beneath them began to come to life again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I will sleep beneath the notes and study them every morning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Rage and humiliation burned hot as the floor shuddered beneath him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s morning twilight. The sun is beneath the horizon. When the sun crests, clouds and sky will shine, glimmering orange-yellow.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper—” were his last words. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much of the prince’s flesh had sloughed away that he could see the skull beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hatchet flicked the last of his scab into the dirt and squinted at the raw skin beneath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded, working the saw carefully beneath a low branch. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The milk is fresh, the rain has stopped, the ground beneath them is solid. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Long turquoise grass moves in the breeze like gentle waves beneath the trees. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A long shadow moved, and a pile of leaves shifted as the dirt beneath it flowed up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He clucked her gendy over and set his stool at her flank and the pail beneath her speckled udder. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her legs were pumping so fast beneath her that she tripped where the lot’s loose asphalt met a patch of wild grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Doon knew he was standing beneath the north edge of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She hands us each an invitation from beneath the table and Dylan and I laugh all the way back to the elevators. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And now he stood, pointing to a flap of dark wool beneath a meringue of snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When it quieted, he listened to the dripping, and the duller roar beneath his feet, where the waves were smashing against Breakwater’s huge stone arches and swirling through its dungeons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were alone, he swung me up into his arms, and carried me across the dark grounds till he reached the bench beneath the shadow of the madrone trees. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother had always told her there was some hidden energy to the world, some light simmering just beneath the surface. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A driveway climbs up a gentle slope before disappearing beneath a weathered wooden garage door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She righted herself and her legs pumped beneath her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe nodded, and without another word, hopped off the roof while slipping the forebear beneath her feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Just as my stomach rumbles with gaseous unpleasantness, so does the ocean beneath the hull of our ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Gently rinsing away the blood, putting on an antiseptic, and bandaging them beneath the cuffs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After he exits, Widget presses his nose to the nearest window, watching him as he passes beneath the streetlamps before disappearing into the darkness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard a couple cooing on the bench beneath the palmetto saw us coming and bolted, so that’s where we sat. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nitta, a small woman with a waist no larger than a soup tin, darted up and down the rows like a hummingbird beneath her straw picking hat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t move as he leaned toward her, closer and closer, the table groaning beneath him, until he stopped, his lips just a hair’s breadth from hers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nearby some crows were pecking at a body crushed beneath the tumbled stone, but he lay facedown and Bran could not say who he was. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her feet were still tucked beneath her chair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pycelle’s chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m on my hands and knees, and the cold ground beneath me is as still as death. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And beneath the chuckles of the crowd I could hear the swishing of its ruffled paper, while the same out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth voice continued to spiel: Shake it up! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know if he saw me nodding, but he shifted back to his own position beneath the gently rustling willow herb and hemlock alongside the Rosalie driver, and they bagged another guard. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was six years old again, master of a kingdom of gristle and bone and rotting fruit hidden beneath the sawdust in a little room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there they were, her brothers, sitting back to back beneath the old pear tree in the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I began to feel the old nagging pain beneath my heart. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the picture beneath the headline is a young man with a plain face and a beard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mamita would take a warm, fresh egg from beneath one of our hens, then break off a bunch of small branches from the chilca tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t, and when we came back in after set theory, the cream puffs were still there, cooling in the circulating air coming in beneath the clean lower windows. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Directly beneath him is the deepest place in the world.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She looked at him and saw his green wildcat eyes ablaze with her own excitement She felt dizzy, as if the whole world were turning beneath her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully rips the naked English guy out of my sketchbook, thankfully not noticing the drawing beneath it, and carries him with her over to the bed and sits down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He did wear the standard Sixer uniform—a navy blue bodysuit with gold epaulettes at the shoulders and a silver IOI logo on his right breast, with his employee number printed beneath it: 655321. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Henry tired of his play and wandered off along the beach, Roger followed him, keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the same direction. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I dodge my way through the chaos to the bedroom and drag my sack from beneath the bed, bringing it out to the kitchen while everyone is occupied. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was older than the Seven Kingdoms, and when he stood beneath it and looked up, it made Jon dizzy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before long I noticed my feet sinking beneath the tufts of grass, and called out: “Okay, this is as far as we can go.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we round a curve, the floorboards jerk beneath us, throwing us together so our shoulders touch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he clomps down the ramp, planting his feet with such force the boards bounce beneath him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So we often passed other people leaning out to trail their hands in the cool water, some drifting by asleep beneath a cloth canopy or oil-coated umbrella. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at my desk beneath the taped-up posters of my rock gods, holding that list in my hand, I started to see things a lot clearer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Directly beneath them the Great Salt Lake glittered like aluminum foil, the shoreline etched with white salt marshes that reminded Leo of aerial photos of Mars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain’s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we passed beneath the shadow of the gates into the courtyard, my disappointment deepened into a fearful dread. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At last Wang Lung felt his legs sinking beneath him and covering his face with his hands he went away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Fifty press reporters, photographers and television cameramen clustered beneath religious murals to the rear of the altar, and some stood on chairs to see better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her black hair was coiled in waves around her head, beneath a pert, proper cream-colored hat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The navy dress was bunched weird beneath my neck. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

This was the backbone of the island, the slightly higher land that lay beneath the mountain where the forest was no longer deep Jungle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lazlo couldn’t tell how much of the threave lay buried still beneath the sand, but from what he could see, it was made up almost entirely of mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was much darker beneath the canopy of clouds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux twisted beneath the stranger in ways a normal person could never manage, stretching like he was made of taffy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I relish the feel of soft, wet earth beneath my bare feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the prayer rug with her legs curled beneath her, as the thread of dawn appears against the horizon. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Reading the way they interact, intuiting the emotions hidden beneath the laughter and conversation, catching the places that gazes linger. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There you are!” the creature beneath them said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was still watching Lester’s wrap job, wondering what sort of pulpy mess lay beneath the layers. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our judge in the Rivonia Trial was Mr. Quartus de Wet, judge- president of the Transvaal, who sat in his flowing red robes beneath a wooden canopy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shreve was coming up the walk, shambling, fatly earnest, his glasses glinting beneath the running leaves like little pools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cups were rubberized, pointy, and beneath a towel or a shirt gave me the suggestion of a bust I didn’t have. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then he was gone, his feet soundless on the stones beneath them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The paint, once sparkling white, had faded to ghostly gray and eroded in parts, revealing the layered bricks beneath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The word beneath it, black against blackness, seemed to reproach: Folly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as any light touched the water, it sank beneath the surface and disappeared, gobbled up by the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mary felt as if the ground had given way beneath her mind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We hugged her to us, she was with us in secret, a giggle; she was lava beneath the crust of daily life. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odin took Mimir’s head back to the well beneath the world-tree, and he placed it there, beside his eye, in the waters of knowledge of the future and of the past. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She staggered back out of his grasp, the ground rushing beneath her, and then fell—hard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Pixel managed to get the phone out, prop it on the edge of one of the boxes beneath her chin, and press the answer button with her nose. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was still in her clothes, and while she looked beautiful, that did nothing to mask the killing potential that lay beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The leaves swishing beneath me when I turn my head or move a leg. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Lying there beneath him, his shirt opened to reveal the broad expanse of his chest, the ripples of muscle across his stomach, she wanted him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I check to make sure I've tucked my pendant beneath my shirt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The wood floor beneath the carpet squeaks under my weight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The first row seemed to have more headroom and breathing area, but the second and third rows beneath them were already slimy with waste. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unexpectedly, he was on his feet, bounding away, instantly out of sight, only to appear beneath the same tree as before, having circled the meadow in half a second. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was always more beneath her frantic fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Its heart, visible beneath skin more fine than the thinnest sheet of vellum, was no longer beating. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

How many other frozen animals were hidden beneath the snow? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No—he was falling toward her, because the platform beneath Mom’s chair gave a little jerk. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Etienne reached beneath the eye patch and pulled out a coin, which he handed to Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then, as it began to sink beneath the waves, it seemed to dissolve into sunlight on the water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ball sailed beneath the crossbar and into the net. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the screen, Deborah sat on a couch with her mother’s Bible open in her lap, her hair brown instead of gray, her eyes bright, with no circles beneath them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It had no visible propeller, though blue light similar to TimeStar’s device gleamed beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of dampness trapped because the sun can’t work its way beneath these balconies. Do you cook?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

May lay in the river, just beneath the surface. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the ground beneath my feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life he felt ground beneath his feet, and he wanted it to stay there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just an intense feeling of fatigue, an overwhelming desire to crawl into bed and burrow beneath the comforter like a cat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Crouching low, the robot wound her way beneath the smoke and around the flames and gently scooped up the young hare. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And she realized that she could feel some of what he was feeling: pain, physical pain, and beneath that a knotted rope of worry. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It figures that it’s located directly beneath Las Vegas. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It is said they still dwell beneath the water. Those who fish the lake are pulled under and devoured.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She put them on beneath the sheet, kicked the sheet back, and stretched her legs. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The deep lines of the kohl pencil on Sabine's stomach show beneath the powder like avenues covered with snow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But beneath all that murkiness and flux, some of the same forces have deepened the hidden divisions of class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bright high lights shone on the tips of waves, and beneath its gray surface I could see lurk ing a deep midnight green. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Illumination came from a roaring fire beneath a handsome marble mantelpiece surmounted by a gilded mirror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He raised himself up upon the bolster, and I slipped a pewter bowl beneath his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She was about to consider taking more serious action—though she didn’t know what that would be—when she felt Taisin stir beneath her hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There they were, four pigs milling beneath an oak tree, eating acorns off the forest floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I set our bags down beneath a shelf on which I saw a plastic image of Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, seated on a pink lotus. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Coney Island twinkled beneath them, and behind them, the Atlantic Ocean reached its vast darkness into the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We sat on the stone bench beneath the pennant pole where I’d been whipped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We dug a secret bunker deep beneath the castle and locked the crates inside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He would carry through and blame the thing upon Jan. He got his gun from beneath the pillow and put it in his shirt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A peculiar slumped in a corner beneath a slash of bullet holes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Shoot, and you'll hit him instead,"I call out to the soldiers from beneath my handkerchief. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A pair of frayed trousers stick out from beneath a ’55 Plymouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their deep brown skin glimmered beneath what at first I thought were black shawls draped over their shoulders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The movements beneath the robes became more agitated. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You must excuse me, Captain-General. My lord father is buried beneath the sept, and it has been too many years since last I prayed for him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And as I approached him I saw his drawn face and the cottony white hair showing beneath his tight, striped engineer's cap. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him to the door and stood in the doorway looking at Mutt and Jeffs car parked beneath the streetlight. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on the movement of the PSF’s shoulder blades beneath his black uniform, but it was difficult when most of the curtains had been left open for anyone to peer inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In complete boredom the next day he tied a large towel beneath the boom and over to the handrails on either side to make an awning and sat in the shade. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ducked under barbed-wire fences and scrambled in and out of ditches that crisscrossed beneath the freeways, ever aware of the frightening, oceanlike roaring over their heads. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On the sixth floor of Number 4 rue Vauborel, Marie-Laure crawls beneath her bed and clamps the stone and little model house to her chest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A candle had been flickering in her mother’s chamber, but her great carved bed was empty beneath its dusty canopy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Xenophilius glanced behind him at the concealed printing press, still banging and clattering beneath the tablecloth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The officer wrinkled his nose and tucked the box beneath one arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, the sun burst out from beneath the horizon, and La Llorona’s features changed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

No sunlight ever reached the caves beneath the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A bunch of seventh and eighth graders in wine-colored uniforms are crowded outside the building, beneath the overhang, trying to stay dry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, of a sudden, I noticed a pale young foot luxuriant with dark hair in my fresh pan of water, and my legs went soft beneath me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boomer and I duck beneath the wire and weave between the trunks, keeping clear of the patches of poison oak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not sitting on its roof like a normal upside-down car would be, but flipped tires-to-the-sky, in midair, high enough to roll a basketball beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I reached the pipe, I carved out a space beneath it, and it was there that I placed the largest of the three containers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loki, who will have escaped from his bonds beneath the earth, will be the helmsman of the ship called Naglfar. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Cars are rusted hulks, half buried beneath debris. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His body is warm, but I feel only his bones and the muscle that wraps around them; nothing yields beneath me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The fragments of the glass marbles that she saw looked like the remains of eggshells one finds beneath trees in springtime: like empty, broken robin’s eggs, or even more delicate—wren’s eggs, perhaps. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

This is the opposite of the earthquake, where things were falling apart and the ground was shifting beneath my small feet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lay there beneath the Invisibility Cloak feeling the blood from his nose flow, hot and wet, over his face, listening to the voices and footsteps in the corridor beyond. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It slipped beneath her collar, tickled her earlobes, caressed her skin in cool, lingering breaths. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can hear them talking but can't make out the words until they are almost directly beneath me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They squatted beneath the parapet in darkness as the badger outlined the situation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As they walked beneath the Wall, she slipped her arm through his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From beneath me came a desperate cry: “You’re crushing me . . . have mercy!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved from tree to tree, feeling the roughness of the bark beneath her fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A column of riders emerged from beneath the portcullis with a clink of steel and a clatter of hooves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He stared at her beneath lowered brows, his lips tightly pursed, and she shrugged as she dropped the chain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I shove them both beneath my thighs, out of sight. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her cranberry lipstick was visible only on the outer reaches of her mouth, and her eyeliner had left charcoal patches beneath her lower lashes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since that time, Tokyo has been eerily quiet, so the strain beneath the surface has been building for eighty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We were quiet beneath the old light above us. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put your arm around my neck,” he said; deftly he whisked her up, as lightly as if she were made of straw, one arm under her head and the other beneath her knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead he followed the light, wending his way down the narrow aisles beneath barrel- vaulted ceilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The attic floorboards beneath her feet are as wide across as her hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why?” she said, watching the emaciated chest rise and fall beneath his sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ash shifted on the branch, feeling the tree move beneath her, and she wondered if she would see Sidhean that night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full dark when they came into Tijuana, walking beneath the steep hills on the right side of the road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They splashed ashore on the narrow strand beneath the bluffs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thor recognized their home of the previous night just as Thialfi and Loki came tumbling out of the mouth of the glove and landed in the snow beneath. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She found an overhanging rock next to the roots of a spruce tree that clung to the side of the gorge, and settled herself beneath it to look around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She heard a bellow and felt the ground beneath her shake as Adiah snarled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I have forebears buried beneath the rocks of Cairns.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The warmth of his brow beneath her moth reassured her, and the sight of him across the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It ripples beneath his fingers, undulating slowly before settling back into its frozen state. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the ground the sleeper sat up beneath his furs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then his grey cloak drew apart, and they saw, beyond doubt, that he was clothed beneath all in white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But then I hear it: the crunch of twigs beneath shoes, and the quietest gasp. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I yearned to become invisible, to have the ground beneath me open and swallow me until it was all over. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the passenger seat of his truck, listening to the engine rev as it guzzled diesel, watching the yellow lines disappear beneath the hood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They rode quickly up the steep hill, the horse jerking and surging beneath her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She pictured her friend as a toddler in a wet diaper, crawling across dirty bedclothes while her mother lay beneath them, high and neglectful. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to play or to talk, to run and climb beneath the huge summer moon. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I tuck it back into its hiding place beneath a neck ruffle on my dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Laila was given a bed at the far end, beneath a window that someone had painted black. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The largest river I’d ever seen surged along beneath it, roaring and carrying branches over sharp rocks and around twisty turns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I snort and Connor twists to peer up at me, his eyes brown and sweet beneath a dark fringe of lashes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He lowered his shaking hand, raised Draco’s wand beneath the Cloak, and murmured, “Lumos.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster, until even the knight in his armor is gone beneath the gray and glimmering waves. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His head was too large for his body, with a brute's squashed-in face beneath a swollen shelf of brow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Muscles bulged from beneath the short sleeves of his red T-shirt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His hair fell from beneath his helm in a heavy braid touched with hoarfrost, and the blacks he wore were so faded they might have been greys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The huge boy will lean back in a chair, so that it makes squeaking protestations beneath his bulk, and let his eyelids slip to half-mast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Errooowww!” something screams beneath me, and I hurry to my feet, slipping on the leaves. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The display case beneath the counter was filled with pan dulce, sweet Mexican breads, that I remembered eating when I visited my abuelos. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And though Charlie has not understood what passed between them, he is afraid and sinks beneath the covers, eyes open, trying to pierce the darkness that surrounds him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His long black hair and beard were streaked with silver, and a great overhanging forehead shadowed his glinting eyes, putting Harry in mind of a crab looking out from beneath a rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’d just carried this guy’s couch beneath a white-hot sun and now he didn’t like me? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I swear I could actually see my heart thumping in my chest beneath my sweater. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Still, when she held a pupa—or “date pit,” as she called it—with its outline of tiny wings beneath the protective shell, she felt the creature stirring within. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed at the dried blood and grime beneath my fingernails, thinking of the remorse I would never be able to wash down a sink. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The tiercel caught up with her, then passed beneath her, flying upside down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Crouching down beneath the Cloak, he placed the Decoy Detonator on the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lying beneath his cold sheets that night, she watched him pull the curtains shut. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She pulled them back beneath the bench to hide them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Its skull grinned beneath an expressionless gray face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man shivered beneath the mountain-bear skin that covered him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel heard Druzmilla warn him beneath her breath, “Archivist...game is up. There’s a vork headed this way with its snout to the ground. It must smell elf. Get ready to run.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She stood beside the gray rails that morning with her hands folded beneath her apron. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate facade there maybe a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I couldn’t see Godzilla’s eyes because they were hidden beneath thick tangles of black Newfoundland hair. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I light tiny tea candles beneath a chafing dish to start melting a skin-color pastille. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The stubble of his cheek is rough beneath my palm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His back is to me, and my gaze goes automatically to the sword hanging from his belt, visible beneath his heavy wool cloak. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The singer's hand came crawling out from beneath the dead animal, scrabbling in the dirt like a spider with five legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Osha glanced around as Father's guardsmen appeared from beneath the trees, steel in hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though the sun has barely started dipping beneath the rooftops and trees, streetlamps are lit on both sides of the road. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I stepped forward, broken glass crunching beneath my sneakers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And red the grass beneath his feet, and red his banners bright, and red the glow of setting sun that bathed him in its light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Learning was an abstraction that took place beneath the stares and approbation of the Catholic S.S. that had goose-stepped through the classrooms of his youth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beneath their cold gaze, I feel small. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s Sunday mid-morning, and the air is still cool and crisp, but the bordering trees have left a carpet of leaves beneath them. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The only way to tell these corporate drones apart was by checking the six-digit employee number stamped on their right breast, just beneath the lOI corporate logo. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After all his anger at Dumbledore, how odd it was to sit here, beneath the high, vaulted ceiling, and defend Dumbledore from himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I watch her feet as they turn and walk away beneath the yellow pajamas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Andrews waves to us from beneath a tree a short distance away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yet I imagined Ade Coker and the rest of the staff in an office beneath the ground, a fluorescent lamp flooding the dark damp room, the men bent over their desks, writing the truth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a small ledge beneath it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My legs collapse beneath me and I pull my arms in, rolling as fast as I can to the side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His shoulders lurked beneath that jacket, his voice, his hands—all real. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She smiles at me from beneath her wild hair. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Any sense of isolation she may have had withered and died in the presence of some two hundred sinners earnestly requesting to be plunged beneath a red, redeeming flood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Don’t collapse, I beg the stone beneath my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She climbed, looped, and finally, in a graceful maneuver, held on to his feet as he flew upside down beneath her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their comers, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nasty injuries, beneath the scarred skin, the things I'd like to disappear by ignoring. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, then at the Yellow Shank, and he let his fingers light on the sunny spot beneath it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He could feel the merch’s heart pounding beneath the wool of his suit. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her butt seemed to be cooperating—it made just enough of a bump beneath her skirt to make itself known without being all extra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

That it had risen right beneath our feet was no coincidence. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

How much they must miss, never to feel the earth beneath their feet, or the wind in their hair, or the tingle of the starlight on their bare skin! The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squealing of the pig and the scent of his blood made the hogs beneath me go nearly wild with anger. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the branches thinned and the ground beneath him began to slope. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weiss’s mouth continued to move, but his words were lost beneath a deep, liquid roar. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And with that he walked around the room, peering behind things, and bending, awkwardly, to look beneath the desk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Ducking beneath the tree root, he scrabbled awkwardly through into a tiny cell-like space on the other side. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His words were exactly what made me worry, as I wandered the ghetto beneath moonlight instead of streetlights because the electricity was out, back to the loose place in the barbed wire fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The volcano beneath the forest—low-sloped and impossibly wide—was a tricky thing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the rider in the dark armor removed his helm, however, the face beneath was not one that Reek knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The surface of the sawdust was combed smooth, the treasures hidden beneath marks that only he, the king, understood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco stands beneath the wishing tree, watching as the candles come alight along the branches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The water flowed beneath them, black and bottomless. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like the darkness was stroking beneath my chin with a beckoning finger, whispering to me to lean forward and know its secrets. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wormed his way through the thicket toward the forest, keeping as far as possible beneath the smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the door and took the trunk inside; his back was bent beneath its weight and he walked slowly with his eyes on the wavering red shadows on the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood side by side at the table, and slowly, Brangwain Spurge lifted up the casket that contained the gemstone found beneath the Elf King’s wading pool. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The girl was frozen at the top of the marble steps, her eyes wide and her face as pale as the stone beneath her feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hideo pulls the world as if he were spinning it under his fingers, and it rushes by beneath our feet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boldest still dropped a few lines into the river, though even that was hazardous; more remained tied up beneath Meereen’s walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beside her, Mini risked a look beneath her feet and started swaying. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie demanded, standing directly beneath the sign and examining it frantically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I certainly hope so,” the duke grumbled, his face darkening beneath his ruddy hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the sea sucked down, revealing a red, weedy square forty feet beneath Ralph's left arm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

MidPass, most of it hidden beneath fog as thick as thunderclouds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jon went to gather fuel, digging down under deadfalls for the drier wood beneath and peeling back layers of sodden pine needles until he found likely kindling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He jotted these down in his notebook beneath his abandoned Caravaggio notes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, beneath a cold autumnal sky, the hunters were pouring through the gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she had registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon filing her green card application, Luma had been fingerprinted; her fingers were placed on an ink pad and carefully rolled over the card beneath. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She saw the book immediately, tucked against the back wall, but as her fingers grappled onto the cover, a glimmer of candlelight traced a white line across the floor beneath her bed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Unchanged, too, was the eternal gurgle in her voice, laughter just beneath the surface, ready to break free, to erupt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A tear crept out from beneath her closed eyelids. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By later that day, the hives had spread across Deborah’s back, her cheeks were splotchy and red, and long welts filled the spaces beneath each eye. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had drawn his feet up beneath him, crossed his arms over his knees, and buried his face behind them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face sagged beneath his ragged, new-grown whiskers, and he looked so weary Catelyn feared he might fall off his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Root spat out the butt of his cigar, squashing it comprehensively beneath his boot heel. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Harry!” he panted, massaging his immense chest beneath his emerald-green silk pajamas. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I bring a letter—" "Did Ned Stark dress you like that?" his father interrupted, squinting up from beneath his robe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We entered the prison yard near a corner of the main structure, beneath a guard tower that stuck out from the outer walls like a castle’s turret. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wiggles his feet out from beneath the towel. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was so much unhappiness in the world, he reflected, bowing his head dismally beneath the tragic thought, and there was nothing he could do about anybody’s, least of all his own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was staring straight ahead, quite as pale as he was, her long blonde hair hanging down her back, but beneath the table her slim fingers closed briefly on his wrist. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not doing anything—just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just the flat of his hand low on her back, slipped beneath her blazer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the red-and-white checked scarf covering her thinning oily black hair that peeks out beneath it, she looks more like ten years old than fourteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishing beneath the teddy bears and fluffy bunnies, George felt for a flat denim bag. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The ladder groaned beneath my weight but held, and within moments my feet were on worn floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the walls beneath the jungle vines, thousands of beautiful apsara goddesses with big round breasts wearing only short wraparound skirts smile at visitors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine the feel of it, beneath his body, moving off and surging forward, vibrating and heaving over the rough ground, and on, through some dark jungle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was probably also wondering how she would drive home herself on roads with a frozen crust, and snow beneath that, and ice beneath that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Through von Rumpel’s mind sail visions of the Fiihrermuseum, glittering cases, bowers beneath pillars, jewels behind glass— and something else too: a faint power, like a low voltage, coming ofF the stone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly as the coals glowed in confusion beneath the new log. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, when he’d met my gaze for a jolting moment, I’d seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

First, however, he had to lift Miss Trixie, who had returned and was kneeling directly beneath it and praying in the spot where Ignatius had been standing to paint. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that Charles has never seen me like this—that every day all last summer, I rushed home and removed every stain, every smudge, hiding cuts and calluses beneath new clothes and makeup. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sprawling brick buildings of Harlem are laid out like a quilt beneath us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one can see the raw, bloody K beneath the cloak I wear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The pain is sharp and searing, coursing through his entire body, and he is barely able to keep his knees from buckling beneath him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It simmered now in the huge iron kettle, beneath which the fire must be kept glowing all through the long hot day. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was wide awake, chilled, the floor cold beneath his feet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear so clearly now the insincerity that had always lurked beneath, the hollow, false assurances. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fairy was directly beneath the mesh, less than two feet away from captivity. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, after flipping through the Green Book, which is safely back beneath his pillow, and hearing G’ma’s stories about the olden days, Scoob’s not sure he wants to walk around this campground alone. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Dolorous Edd planted a foot on his back to keep him on his knees as Emmett shoved the block beneath his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I had him hanged, and claimed my rights beneath the tree where he was swaying. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the ground were bears and mountain lions and rattlesnakes; in the treetops, an astonishing array of squirrels; and beneath the soil, one thick seam after another of coal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I pull the mirror from beneath my dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Cannonballs are stacked in pyramids, and there in the middle sits the cannon, impossibly heavy—the copper planks beneath it buckle from its weight. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Blood ran from a cut beneath her eye. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18,1906, the earth beneath San Francisco heaved inward upon itself in a titanic, magnitude 7.8 convulsion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads him up five flights of uncarpeted stairs that creak noisily beneath their combined weight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He always shredded his paws on the rough concrete buried beneath, but he could not control the urge. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I tense my shoulders, about to shrug and say I don’t know, and then an image of the pier stretching out beneath me comes into my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he notices that there is a girl standing some paces away, also sheltered beneath the awning, and she is poring over the pages of a notebook that he is quite certain is his own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t try to climb them, because who’s to say they won’t break apart beneath my feet and drop me down into some abyss where I’ll have to slay giant underground rodents with my bat. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The hilt of my scim drips with it, making it slippery beneath my hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

South of the Blackwater, Davos saw men dragging crude rafts toward the water while ranks and columns formed up beneath a thousand streaming banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I turned the lock on the front door, went into my new room, locked that door, put a chair beneath the knob, and got into the bed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He bent down carefully, as if the floor beneath him could shift at any moment, picked up our ravaged piggy bank, and turned it over in his hands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The school had turned the heat on and the tall radiators beneath the windows made soft hissing noises. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His two thin hands are gripping the edges of the table as if the floor were pitching beneath him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every hundred paces along the path, they come across a big steel cap beneath which a soldier would direct cannon fire at whomever was trying to take the hill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At which point he launched himself at me—we don’t usually bind these men—and took my head beneath his arm in a grip of iron. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He decided to return to Huamuxtitlan, the dusty village beneath a flat-topped mountain where he was born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I rub the instrument across her stomach again, and it flattens with each stroke, the extra skin and bulk beneath it melting away, her waist growing smaller. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And beneath that, a five o’clock shadow finely mists his strong jawline, just so. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Spears thrust at him from every side, but the shield wall broke beneath his weight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think too much about it, just kept climbing down and down and down until finally a shard of light appeared beneath her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He slides his hands beneath her gauzy skirt and rubs her warm thighs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need a deck beneath my feet again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it doesn’t pull the glove beneath the water! Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She would die here, in freedom, beneath the beginnings of dawn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On her way back to the cottage, laden with newly washed clothes to spread in the sun, the midwife tripped over Walter the Blacksmith’s second-best pig and fell, left leg twisted beneath her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest tree Jem Snow had ever seen, the trunk near eight feet wide, the branches spreading so far that the entire village was shaded beneath their canopy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shoes at the foot of the bed, beneath the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, she watches me for a moment longer before turning and disappearing beneath the arches. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

On this day I am walking barefoot behind Trini, up and down, up and down, plowing weeds in the furrows, the dirt rough beneath my feet. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

All his uncertainty had disappeared, and his steady eye and voice plainly revealed the core of strength that Kit had always sensed beneath his gentleness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, this is something I want you to see. Quite by accident I discovered this writing beneath where Martin’s picture once hung.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The left hand was curled open; the fingers were filthy; the wristwatch gave off a green phosphorescent shine as it slipped beneath the thick waters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lay them upon our knees beneath the table in readiness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But beneath it all, I heard a sinister laugh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Father pointed to the big letters beneath the picture. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the covers up and shimmy down beneath them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Butchered like a hog and shoved beneath a snowbank. A boy.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She spins away from me and then returns, passing beneath my arm so her back is pressed against me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And so she rode behind him, beneath the shadow of the Bloody Gate where a dozen armies had dashed themselves to pieces in the Age of Heroes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I felt six hands on my back and the bumpy ground beneath me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrapped in black cellophane paper, as well, and he had lodged it in the refrigerator, beneath bottles of Fanta. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They found a few branches here and there, and piled them into their arms beneath their oilskin cloaks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We line up beneath him and thrust our arms into the space between us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They buzzed around it, completely unaware that the robot was hidden beneath. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His face cracked into a smile beneath his mustache. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His throat had been split, and the dirt was dark beneath him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As I approach the menagerie, the ground rumbles beneath my feet and it scares the hell out of me because it’s not noise. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The next shot shows mobs of people flowing like a human river down a winding mountain road, and disappearing beneath a forest canopy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I set off across the meadow to hunt beneath the tree. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A low rumbling comes from beneath me, and the whole silo begins to vibrate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The receivers were connected to "induction" antennas that hung around their necks, concealed beneath their clothing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Emily, James, and Matthew hugged the wall next to the restrooms to stay out of view of anyone on the lower level until footsteps thundered beneath them and then faded. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I began to hurry, twigs cracking beneath my feet and my own hoarse breath loud in my ears, and before long the path emerged into the clearing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s still a bite in Tao’s voice, but beneath it, he sounds injured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They felt that he was too far beneath them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, the vegetation thins and the ground beneath becomes rocky and hard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Woolf had no idea that beneath him, something was about to go wrong. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place, and tomorrow she would call the bus station and ask the price of a one-way ticket to San Francisco. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I settle for simply swinging my legs back and forth beneath the table. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere teams of slaves were raising ramps of stone and sand beneath their mangonels and scorpions, angling them upward at the sky, the better to defend the camp should the black dragon return. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the long room where the lots of paint were stacked along the floor beneath numbered markers that hung from the ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Hamlet's anatomy book that showed a skeleton laid bare beneath the skin, a grim reminder of waiting Death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The floor beneath me begins to feel like part of my body, and my breathing is growing heavier, slower. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then both of them disappeared beneath the river’s surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

No trumpets announced the foe: vassals, servants, friends, brothers, sons, even wives, any of them might have knives concealed beneath their cloaks and murder hidden in their hearts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I would walk past all the folks sitting in the town square beneath the big oak tree. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beneath those roofs, the Sons of the Harpy were gathered, plotting ways to kill her and all those who loved her and put her children back in chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because I’m swinging my legs out from beneath the covers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Newly woken birds call to one another beneath the brightening sky. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was hunter and stalker and slayer, and he belonged with his brothers and sisters in the deep woods, running free beneath a starry sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His shoulders stretch broad and muscular beneath his shirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wrist failed him, then the touch had fled and he would be forced to challenge the tall men who dwelled beneath the basket with swift drives that they would quickly move to intercept. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he chosen to step off the platform and fall beneath the train? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair safely restored beneath her hairnet, Desdemona glowered around the yard, submerged in a despair too deep for tears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were thin red scars across her stomach, along the side of her neck, and beneath her chin, each about the length of a cigarette. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He smiled a tight smile, a smile that gave Reynie the feeling Mr. Curtain half-believed what he said, but also that something else, something much larger and darker, lay beneath. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The great pulpy folds of his abdomen showed beneath his silk pajamas. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before the wagon passed beneath him, Toomer tossed the flowers up to the man, who caught them in a burst of falling petals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angela’s name pulsed beneath the hushed conversations like a muted drum. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed himself away from the frame and began to run up the hill, his bare legs beneath his tunic pumping desperately. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lights were too bright, the seat beneath him too worn and loose, ready to dump him to the floor. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wildling began to scrape the dirt out from beneath his nails with the point of his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By now, I shouldn’t be surprised at her utter lack of emotion, but I can’t help but stare at her from where I crouch beneath the execution dais. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Though the man grasping her arm was tall and fit, she could see nothing of the features concealed beneath his hood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anastasia charged me again, and I fell to the ground and curled up, making sure I again had Otto beneath me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her complexion pulsed darker beneath her freckles, making her scratch appear less vivid. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now say you have a black guy—not Justyce, but someone else—whose single parent’s income falls beneath the poverty line. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I observed their ordered fields beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing not trembling was the earth beneath my feet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When they were alone beneath the trees, Edmure turned to face her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then that same thought rolled over and showed me what was beneath it: Every minute that you don’t get him a present, he’s a minute closer to dying. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As I took a step back, the floor rolled beneath me, and the air grew denser, stifling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone wandered like ghosts beneath the guard towers with the mountains looming on either side of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the cloud on top and the shimmering blue beneath, she looked like a rainstorm that could walk around all by itself. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of its internal life exists within three paper-thin layers of tissue—the phloem, xylem, and cambium—just beneath the bark, which together form a moist sleeve around the dead heartwood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the tide was out, the seaweed crackled beneath a sun hot enough to melt your mind. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps all this that I think is mere melancholy and dismay, which will fly away as the dust, when I stand once again beneath the poplars and listen to the rustling of their leaves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point slashed just beneath his eyes, and he felt its cold hard touch and then a blaze of pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Isabella and I hide from the sun beneath the big magnolia tree. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Verdant green eyes looked up at her from beneath long black lashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Paul and a couple of other men had a quick whispered council and decided to work their way beneath the bridge and try to attack the guards from behind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She had looked down at us in the lifeboat, her blond hair blowing beneath her pink hat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Presently he came back, and bending looked at Frodo’s face, pale beneath him in the dusk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’d been kneeling on grits since I was six, but still I never got used to that powdered-glass feeling beneath my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Saturday before my dinner a very good-natured friend and I drove down to a lonely stretch of shoreline beneath the San Mateo Bridge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle, in an ornamented sedan chair carried by four people, sat a woman, the mistress, on red cushions beneath a colored awning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk behind, leaves crunching beneath my feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Water as blue as a summer sky stretched beneath us, and giant ships dotted the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he left the gymnasium, he noticed a large number of parked cars sitting beneath the street lights outside the locker room door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shards of the broken cup crunched beneath his father's heels as Lord Tywin crossed the room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And when Holly was long gone, soaring beneath the hallway’s ancient oak beams, Artemis said, “I don’t like lollipops.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At least a hundred dementors, their hidden faces pointing up at him, were standing beneath him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Reaching beneath his seat, he pulls out a red gift bag creased with use and drops it onto the dashboard. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a truth as simple as the dirt beneath my feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And then the earth opened up beneath us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look around me—at folks whispering, pausing beneath trees, some folks, silent or crying, looking into square tower graves. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I took her to the front door and showed her how the lock worked, then showed her how a chair could be propped beneath the knob so it wouldn’t turn. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our stacks of Cosmopolitan were topped with an unread issue of Boy's Life or Sports Illustrated, and our decoupage projects were concealed beneath the sporting equipment we never asked for but always received. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The complex pattern of dark lines may be ice fractures which have been filled in with material from beneath the crust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lean against their bags, shoes kicked off, three small children lying beneath blankets next to them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The whole of the usurper's fleet would have passed by the time the first glimmer of metal could be seen beneath the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It swept the black-red from the margins of his eyes and turned the contemptuous crowd beneath him into a faceless blob. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Another man was fallen, trapped beneath his injured horse, both of them screaming in pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, others watched in terror as ice split and earth shook beneath their feet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She found Robb beneath the green canopy of leaves, surrounded by tall redwoods and great old elms, kneeling before the heart tree, a slender weirwood with a face more sad than fierce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From time to time, she rubs herself, unconsciously, beneath her breast. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was swollen, like heti swallowed a balloon and it still floated beneath the skin. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walked ahead and found a bench beneath a canopy of trees. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once a rock moved beneath his foot and he slid backwards, and almost went tumbling back down the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I look down and the ground smears beneath me, all gray and white and black, glass and pavement and steel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

More shadows danced beneath the tree, and the whistling picked up again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And there was also the reservoir of dark water, all covered by snow and by night, by snow-fall and by night-fall, buried beneath black and white, gray mist and gray silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ballooned in great dark rolls above, and beneath it drew a long trailing skirt of rain, and as they looked the cloud rumbled and flashed fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They beat at the teenager’s fingers until he released his grip and slipped beneath the surface with a few small bubbles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He vanishes beneath the edge of the table, his eyes perplexed, his mouth still open. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A dead horse and a child’s mitten glared at me from beneath the frozen glaze. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He can see the bulge of the gun handle beneath dude’s shirt. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Somehow the ones on the right side always found the scar beneath the mud quickly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Hanuman swept his hand over the screen, and images twisted beneath them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mozart’s emotional subtext, on the other hand, is disguised beneath the sheen of decorum and poise required of an eighteenth-century artisan. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He lifted his mattress with one arm, propped it on his head, and began rummaging through piles of paper hidden beneath it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph walked, listening to the sound of what was beneath his feet, and soon he noticed he was alone. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was looking at me like having to answer a simple question was beneath him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But he does and the skin grows raw beneath his fingers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next he knew, he was lying on a bed of pine needles beneath a dark stone roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And when the elements had destroyed the blankets beyond repair, I used the shells to protect myself from the sun by propping them against each other and lying beneath them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We worked at our dusty tasks beneath the summer sun; later, we played for tavern dances. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She wrote tracking and then using cucos right beneath it on the blackboard, and Seven wasn’t sure how to feel at the backhanded compliment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He might stumble upon the little cottage in the cove and he would not be happy beneath its tumbled roof, the thin rain beating a tattoo. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had been shining on it all day, and the links were hot beneath my fingers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a while she swam idly to and fro in utter peace; then she seemed to feel something stir in the depths beneath her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, beneath rotting wood and twisted splintered branches, she found her hidden sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a second, I feel as though I’m falling, as though the bed has disappeared from beneath my body. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the Iron Throne, wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I slid out on the limb until it dipped beneath my weight. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the water which flowed beneath this earth connected to the waters beneath our town, the waters of the golden carp. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bark was rough beneath her fingers, against her toes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then, as quickly as a gasp, the world shrank, and I felt the ground open up beneath me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Though there were blankets over the cages, I could hear the animals stir as I passed by them, the floor creaking beneath my bare and chilled feet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beau whined, and I kicked once more, and for the first time I got my shoulders clear of the water for a second, before my legs were washed out from beneath me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As she lay there staring up at the stained canvas, she could have sworn she saw movement out of the corner of her eye: Nin stirring beneath the mound of clothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I liked him—don’t get me wrong—beautiful eyes behind the dreadful specs, and very lithe and powerful beneath the scholarly tweed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her ears rang with the sound of Shae’s and Kaede’s breathing in that small room, and beneath it, the flutter of her heartbeat seemed as loud as a drum. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tears coursing from beneath his closed eyes, down his unshaven face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The road was narrow, the ruins so positioned that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ever since his trip beneath Rome with Piper and Percy, fighting those twin giants in the hypogeum under the Colosseum, most of his nightmares were about basements, trapdoors, and large hamster wheels. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Drifts climbed the walls and filled the crenels along the battlements, white blankets covered every roof, tents sagged beneath the weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning Ged woke beneath his friend's roof, and while he was still drowsy he felt such wellbeing as if he were in some place wholly defended from evil and harm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near the earrings a few gray wisps of hair escaped from beneath the black wig, which was slightly awry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, evidently, this butler had entered the dining room to make sure all was well for dinner, when he noticed a tiger languishing beneath the dining table. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd beneath the Roberts family was larger than ever; they could see the Ministry wizards trying to get through it to the hooded wizards in the center, but they were having great difficulty. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Grows push and prod at my sides, worming their way beneath me, and I let them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Foolish girl,” she said over and over beneath her breath. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He climbed over the fence that surrounded it, and stood directly beneath it, staring up at its great bulging sides. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia’s images of them were already fading, their features cracking and flaking away like old paint, revealing nothing but darkness beneath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden urge to feel the ground beneath her, to curl her toes in that thick black soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We settled on a bench beneath a great spreading willow, then abandoned it and found more comfortable seats on the ground at the foot of the tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As they walked I saw a flash of grey robe beneath their cloaks: Tehlin priests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He found a place out of the wind, beneath an overhang of rock, and took off his cloak to use it for a blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely: a figure slightly taller than he was, rising from an armchair, his face a pale and pointed blur beneath white-blond hair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was pointing into the moat, and I followed her finger and could see the little garter snake skirting along the surface, swimming beneath a floodlight’s skirt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then all of that had faded, the sounds dwindling, the people shrinking, the spears and arrows falling back beneath them as Drogon clawed his way into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The knife had entered beneath her left arm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, the water was clear enough to see fathoms beneath the surface. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

An egg-shaped clearing beneath high pines rounded out a bend in a running stream. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Men sat on benches beneath trees, drinking palm wine from cow horns and cloudy glass mugs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today, he took them around the orchard of Dream Fruit and beneath an archway of gleaming silver feathers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I clutch the seat beneath me and try not to think of what I ate for dinner. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A glossy bubble of blood grew directly beneath her ear. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was half way between waking and slumber in the dark corner of the stockade, shivering beneath my blanket—my shoes once again my own—my spirits ebbing with fatigue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Clara wrote small cards to each of her loved ones, of whom there were many, and secretly placed them in a box beneath her bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes dropped to the caption beneath it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to know or care what was happening, because without argument, he let me slide an arm beneath his shoulders and drag him along, half asleep. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The captain’s blue eyes flashed in the shadow beneath his hat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

From that tile floor I let myself sink down into it, down and down until my lungs burned, like when I was in the deep wells beneath the diving boards at the lake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I dug the man out, a gray and bloody ghost beneath fallen bricks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Styx was out of sight beneath the trees in seconds. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They could see him through the doorway peering beneath the sink and opening the oven door. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was walking beneath the shell of the Lord Commander’s Tower, past the spot where Ygritte had died in his arms, when Ghost appeared beside him, his warm breath steaming in the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He felt gears grinding beneath the controls, but nothing would engage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ma feels the ground beneath her become warm and wet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the page, beneath the photograph of the DIC, is another article and another headline, which also appears to refer to the photograph. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at him and memorized his face—smooth skin, with the cheekbones sharp beneath them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There’s Mom, Uncle Max, Prism, and even the kiss with Adam—I’m suffocating beneath the weight of life inexperience. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stick motioned with his foot toward the scattering of books and magazines beneath his bed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then she’d let go, with nothing beneath her, and had hit the floor below feet first, sending a jolt of pain up her legs and spine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I moved to a water-stained patch of concrete floor directly beneath the hole in the ceiling, sat down cross-legged, and angled my body so the light shone upon the book. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

To get her out from under the colander, Billy had slid a piece of cardboard beneath it, pinching her foot sharply in the process, so that it hurt when she walked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands touched the swell beneath her breasts protectively as a roar went up from the Dothraki. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes—new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She slides a hidden drawer out of the base, finds a hidden compartment beneath the drawer, takes out a wooden key, and slots the key inside the chimney. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The metal rocked and chugged beneath us as the train began to move. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The horse beneath her felt powerful and wild, but he moved so smoothly that Ash found herself relaxing against her will. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing onto the television cabinet, which stood beneath the window, Sticky peered out over the plaza below. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know they lay just a few feet from her . . . dead beneath the rubble. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Hermione was fumbling with the neck of her robes, pulling from beneath them a very long, very fine gold chain. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I fall, he tries to catch me and ends up falling down beneath me, just so I won’t hurt myself. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As we sat, Otto squirmed out from beneath the poncho and sat in my lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hair that had retreated from Mormont's spotted scalp had regrouped beneath his chin in a shaggy grey beard that covered much of his chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The red dirt beneath her feet seemed to hum, and the collective smells around her formed a fragrance of their own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dwarf knew from conviction number eight how easy it was to conceal a pressure pad beneath the deep shag of some antique weave. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They came upon the tarp almost at once and he knelt and dropped the bindle and groped about for the rocks he’d weighed the plastic with and pushed them beneath it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Leaning heavily on his cane, Cressen climbed the last few steps and hobbled beneath the gateway teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I dodged the reporters, ducked beneath their cameras, ignoring the questions they fired at me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He knew that one day the earth would be empty of life except what was sustained beneath the ground.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday afternoon on the front porch Across the road, Miss Bell has tied a blue-checked sunbonnet beneath her chin, lifts her head from her bed of azaleas and waves to my grandmother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But Theon had spent ten years in Winterfell, and did not intend to go to war without a good mount beneath him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked across Tab’s still form at Taisin, and he noticed how young and vulnerable she looked today, with purple shadows beneath her eyes and her narrow shoulders slumping. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suspended on the rounds of my feet, I glided to the sofa and slid beneath it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

On the third night after hearing the broadcast—Thursday—Werner stands in the hexagonal bathtub beneath the queen bee. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Are we near? the boy would wonder, as Hodor clambered up a stony slope, or descended into some dark crevice where drifts of dirty snow cracked beneath his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the shade beneath a sycamore tree, thinking of the unfilled hours ahead, replaying the conversation in the coffee shop, remembering the look on Martin’s face when he said good-bye to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking toward me at a brisk clip, hunched beneath the considerable weight of a six- foot log balanced across one shoulder. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bolt, a cobra bite, beneath my navel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Turkish border guards burst into the sunlight from beneath it, guns pointed, ready to shoot. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We found the little girl beneath a slab of broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last wispy cloud disappeared as the world of Alke emerged like a jewel beneath us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A stableboy stood behind her, a smirk on his face, his filthy white undertunic peeking out from beneath a soiled jerkin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he held the jacket up and looked beneath it he saw a stream of red liquid. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! talk of me if you like,” cried Edna, clasping her hands beneath her head; “but let me think of something else while you do.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has the faintest idea how or why Yellowstone’s ended up beneath a continental plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, dry fallen leaves crunching beneath our feet. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Trestle tables and benches, more than I had ever seen in one place, stood beneath a low beamed ceiling. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ned Stark reached out his hand to grasp the flowery crown, but beneath the pale blue petals the thorns lay hidden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Their trunks made patterns of alternating light and dark beneath the canopy of branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I find it very insulting when Lucy acts like this class is beneath her. She doesn’t belong here.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she could hear her good friends the beavers going about their business beneath the ice, and she wondered when she would see them again. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One by one Miss Bimp’s students come out, sweaters over bare chests, shoes with no socks, jumpers with no shirts beneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Larisa and Nadya recovered from the shock of their own bomb exploding beneath them, they found themselves swept by the headlight beam of the German fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A field of green, the color of Lita’s cactus garden, lies beneath the waterfall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once I see the park to my left, I slow to a fast-walk, heaving breaths, my shoulders burning beneath the backpack straps. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It traveled a half mile speedily and then gathered beneath the Islander so that Kabuo felt it, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jethro walked on the warm clods of plowed earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped his mother carry the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass beneath him was brown and dry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the drawer beneath the sink there were three pencils and he took one out and wrote in the log: Date unknown, probably June 4th or 5th. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely,” she says, “my great-uncle and I are not the only people sleeping beneath our own roof tonight.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You see, the river didn’t fall away beneath Nettle; it tightened around her! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The broken wood beneath held that side a foot or two off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the title page, beneath his grandfather’s signature, Ashoke had written his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his collar his neck began to chafe, and he wiggled a finger beneath his tie. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt I'm miles beneath the Training Center or in some Capitol stronghold, and the possibility of my escape is nonexistent. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just the feel of his forearm beneath the thin cotton of his shirt makes me ache to kiss him again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Nailer started swimming beneath the boardwalk, easing his way to the buoys. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had always looked to the sky for thunder, but this thunder was coming from beneath my feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He wiped the perspiration from his face with the sleeve of his overcoat and hurried to get beneath the wheel and on his way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He felt the metal of the wheel grow hot beneath him, blackening the flesh of his arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her arms were crossed and her red hair was pulled back from her face beneath the wide black brim of her hat. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Pa puts the rice in a bag, inside a container, and hides it beneath a small pile of clothes so that the other villagers cannot see it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sprawled, awkwardly, beneath the hazel tree, and she gazed up at Tristran with a scowl of complete unfriendliness. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as he was resting two feet beneath me, I came to the conclusion that I had to step into the circus ring again. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They admire its perfect symmetry and pose for photographs beneath the minarets from which tourists used to leap to their deaths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above her bed are papered her fantastical pencil drawings of Frau Elena’s village, of Paris with a thousand white towers beneath whirling flocks of birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My knees crumple beneath me, and he grabs my collar almost carelessly, dragging me toward the elevator bank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those seeds of all kinds—carrot, pea, squash, pumpkin, onion—rested just beneath the surface. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there, beneath it all, hanging by a silver strand of childlike anticipation, I saw it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Did he think about all that before powering the thing down and shoving it beneath his mattress? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

How could everything as solid as the earth my grandfather fought for crumble so easily beneath my feet? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I whisper, “Hush. Sleep,” and tuck the sheet beneath her chin. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t so sure about that, but the way Sam said it, the low burn beneath her words, made me reconsider. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The contents had returned to their original, silvery-white state, swirling and rippling beneath his gaze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As they picked their way through the dim, drenched Wood, Kaede peered out from beneath the hood of her cloak at the surrounding trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And now I answered, "Painful and empty," as I saw a glittering butterfly circle three times around my blood-red parts, up there beneath the bridge's high arch. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the night the trees stood tall before them, arched over the road and stream that ran suddenly beneath their spreading boughs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The swallow led them to another empty courtyard, then over an arched stone bridge of the same color as the frozen water beneath. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She clasped her hands and held them beneath her chin. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For now, though, beneath the whip of the administration, they are all the same, all Jungmanner. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I ran, the brief case heavy beneath my arm. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of Marco’s skin beneath the ink and his cologne. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The surface beneath my feet hardens, and under the carpet of ash, I feel the paving stones of the square. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make sense to hide beneath bedding from men with guns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When her eyes were closed and her breathing deep and steady, Tyrion slid out from beneath her, gently, so as not to disturb her sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Where there should have been more cells there was a steel door, bright light shining beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were characters beneath, but of these he could make nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later, an identical package landed in front of Ron, crushing beneath it his minuscule and exhausted owl, Pigwidgeon. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ramsay Bolton stood beneath them, clad in high boots of soft grey leather and a black velvet doublet slashed with pink silk and glittering with garnet teardrops. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, it was purplish blue beneath a flaming golden sun. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The raft had moved to the outside of a shallow curve and had glided back beneath some overhanging willows and low trees. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at me again in that way of his, like he’s trying to see beneath the skin. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Dip back down again — quickly —” They dropped back beneath the clouds and twisted around in their seats, squinting at the ground. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The moss under my scuffed boots glitters with dew, and there is a threadbare carpet of golden leaves beneath the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Catelyn pulled it out from beneath her cloak and threw it down on the table in front of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old church clock showed a few minutes before ten as the contestants positioned themselves directly beneath the long banner that stretched across the street. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said a voice from the darkness beneath. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to paint the feel of the sand beneath her toes, the crackling of dry empty crab shells as she popped them between her palms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And he opened his mouth, feeling, as he watched his father, the darkness roar behind him, and the very earth beneath him seem to shake; yet he gave to his father their common testimony. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

To his surprise there was an elderly dishwashing machine beneath the sink, and he filled it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Chip, please,” she said to the microphone waving beneath her. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harry’s scar scorched again: For a moment the Room of Requirement swam before him, and he saw instead the dark earth soaring beneath him and felt the great snake wrapped around his shoulders. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She could feel her heart fluttering beneath her breast, and for one long moment she could not catch her breath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes were liquid black marbles, and his voice was a rumble from beneath the world. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want people to see me naked when I’m dead!” yelled Brooke into the air beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He fingered the collar of his order,- a heavy chain worn tight around the neck beneath his robe, each link forged from a different metal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She shimmied beneath the blankets, pulling them over her head, but he grabbed the covers and threw them to the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel could feel the water beneath their feet rocking, roused like an awakening beast. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We get to the truck, and I immediately see the blanket in the back has been overturned, and the box that was hidden beneath it is gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rocks creaked under her feet, and beneath that, she could feel the mountain churning, churning, churning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed Kuwei and launched them both into the black mouth beneath the roots of the tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was one of the folk from Beyond the Wall, he could tell at once from her eyes, and her ears, which were visible beneath her curly black hair. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped from the trunk and scratched at the dirt beneath. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The closest crate was right on the edge, beneath a bundle of rope. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet could not find a safe place—the sand beneath the water kept shifting. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make Helena a nest on the floor beside the stove with my coat, her skirt rolled up for a pillow, and prop the chair beneath the front doorknob. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tee cringed and then rolled her eyes beneath her perfectly coifed pompadour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Holding the pig by the ankle, I could still feel her warmth beneath the bristly skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Augustus spun around to a stack of books beneath his bedside table. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And Ethir Anduin he saw, the mighty delta of the River, and myriads of sea-birds whirling like a white dust in the sun, and beneath them a green and silver sea, rippling in endless lines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I lower the bar and slide it beneath the bracket on the first backup. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Harry raised the hawthorn wand beneath the cloak, pointed it at the old goblin, and whispered, for the first time in his life, “Imperio!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even though she is terribly thin and her collarbone is long and narrow beneath her skin, her eyes are still as sharp as ever. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through the illuminated doorway, a new shadow creeps out onto the screen—a slate gray silhouette of a boy who walks across the stage of the window frame beneath the hovering moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It shattered into a thousand pieces, and crunched beneath my feet as I ran. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I notice the deep circles beneath my mom’s eyes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As Maya numbers grew, so did the islands beneath them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I stood beneath the shelter of its limbs and the shadow of its trunk, it felt like I was in one of Nana’s stories. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the smell of sheepskin! The elegant feel of the scroll unrolling beneath my hooves. You simply can’t duplicate it in something like that” He nodded indignantly at the guidebook in Jason’s hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He tried sliding one of the chairs from beneath the kitchen table. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I opened the door to my chamber, I saw that my blanket was slashed, and tom, and the clothes I had mounded beneath it were thrown about the room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But even with all of this, as I stood on the lower deck outside our dark, cramped rooms in steerage, watching the oily water churn beneath the Agnes Pauline, I felt my spirits lift. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Come with me beneath the sea, away, away, away.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was so deep it could have drawn water from a well, right up from beneath the floor of our nitwit household. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

God of my fathers, if you can hear me in your watery halls beneath the waves, grant me just one small throwing axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It came out of the water beneath us, hissing and clanking like some giant mechanical monster. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her gray oily hair clings to her skull and her chest contracts and expands in shallow breaths beneath her black clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at me,” he commanded, reaching down and forcing my head up with a sharp slap of his gloved hand beneath my chin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when she was sure that he was asleep, Laila quietly reached beneath the mattress for the knife she had hidden there earlier. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We histled he would attract the Enemy and I grabbed at his Ankles to fell him, & fall he did, & lay in the Sand without Sign of Life beneath the Glare of our Townsmen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now the sea races beneath the aiming windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They swung the cauldron on the fire’s heart, poured water in, and fed the blaze beneath until the basin simmered, cupped in flame. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though it still feels strange to be so far away from soft dirt beneath bare feet the ground is firm here and the one tree blooms wide enough to shade four buildings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their parents congregate beneath, holding the hands of younger siblings and pointing to various marvels appearing in front of them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A burst of applause resounded beneath the music, politely enthusiastic, followed by a steady murmur. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael squatted beneath branches in the rain and watched the tree’s entry for half a minute. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A newspaper clipping, formerly hidden beneath the worn brown thing I came up here to take. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I know the Abyssal Serpent follows us somewhere beneath the glassy surface of the water, but like the ship, it travels in complete stealth, leaving no evidence of its passage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A day earlier and she might have been sleeping in a bed beneath one of the windows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She is beneath me, her ocean eyes terrified as I pin her scim arm down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A tapestry was draped on the screen behind them and rich Eastern carpets beneath. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Matt felt idly beneath the sawdust for something he’d been feeding to bugs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t take the exit, thank goodness, but as soon as they pass beneath the bridge, G’ma bites her lip. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z